Branch Rickey Quotes
Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.Branch Rickey
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It was like an honor thing for me to meet 50 cause I respected his whole story.
Young Buck -
As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.
Omari Hardwick -
Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
Umberto Eco -
We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
Jack LaLanne -
I just didn't realize how powerful 'CHiPs' was.
Larry Wilcox -
I can paint in jail.
Jack Kevorkian
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
Yani Tseng -
It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
Nargis Fakhri -
Every sport has its own cast of characters.
Randy Savage -
You do the policy, I'll do the politics.
Dan Quayle -
Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
Yahoo Serious -
It's nice to film in somewhere that you actually love being. Usually, you're in a studio for months on end, and you never see any daylight, so you really make the most of it.
Felicity Jones
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I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
Rachel Weisz -
It's important to ask candidates about their beliefs, in part because politicians frequently exploit religious faith - often with the idea that voters will be more likely to unthinkingly accept certain political positions so long as they arise from religious belief.
Gary Bauer -
Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
Rafael Cruz -
I grew up with 'Friends' from day one and, like, 'Seinfeld' and 'Frazier,' those sorts of shows, but for sure, 'Friends' was it for our family. Like, we would watch every Thursday night at eight o'clock; I couldn't wait.
Kaley Cuoco -
My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.
Indira Gandhi -
This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.
Fat Joe
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Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.
Edmund Phelps -
When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
Ted Sarandos -
I get to be the nosiest friend or acquaintance that anyone has because it's - my job is to ask you about your dating life all the time.
Sam Yagan -
We were unhappy with the first 18 minutes of the game, and we weren't reacting defensively the way we like to see them react. In the second half, we stepped it up defensively and were able to get out and run.
Phil Jackson -
Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.
Branch Rickey