Pierre de Coubertin Quotes

Sport must be accessible to working class youth.

Pierre de Coubertin

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• It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Attention
  • Nice
  • Win

• My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Women
  • Really
  • Neighborhood

• I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Hate
  • Care
  • Positive

• I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
  • Influence
  • My Own
  • Height

• This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.

  

  Walter Murch
  • People
  • Job
  • Yourself

• Sometimes God presents opportunities that look insignificant or rather ordinary. Perhaps you don't see how they fit into the big picture for your life. But if God is asking you to do something, He has a purpose for it.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • God
  • Purpose

• Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Up
  • Death
  • City

• So finally I came up with a thing that felt really pure, and I'm Christian, so when I hear about death I have a lot of hope because I believe in Jesus and life after death, and John 3:16.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Believe

• Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You're looking at double work.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Work
  • Different
  • Looking

• Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy, your flexibility and all the rest. Maybe your chest is flabby or your hips or waist need toning. Also, you should change your program every thirty days. That's the key.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Energy
  • Change
  • Focus

• What I love about 'Midnight Train' is that it's a song about a journey, but the music actually takes you on that journey. It feels like you're moving through the whole song.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • Love
  • Song

• The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgement free.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Mind
  • Free
  • Engagement

• Remember this: your body is your slave; it works for you.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Remember
  • Body
  • Slave

• In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • May
  • Man
  • Action

• There is no 'need' for us to eat meat, dairy or eggs. Indeed, these foods are increasingly linked to various human diseases and animal agriculture is an environmental disaster for the planet.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Animal
  • Environmental
  • Meat

• I want every kid to go to college and be like a normal student. I want them to be able to go to a movie, go to a concert. I want them to be able to have that opportunity. But if you're paying kids, are you going to pay a lineman less than you're paying a quarterback? I don't know how to explain that stuff.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Kids
  • Movie
  • Want

• I'm good at keeping secrets.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Good
  • Secrets
  • Keeping

• I think people found out I'm just like anybody else. I've got problems, too.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • People
  • Think
  • Problems

• I wrote 'The Facebook Era' because I felt like it needed to be written, and I was one of the people who might be qualified to do so. Specifically, my background is that I developed the first business application on Facebook.

  

  Clara Shih
  • People
  • Business

• After September 11th, nations from across the globe offered their generous assistance to the people of New York. And whenever our friends around the world need our assistance, New York is there.

  

  George Pataki
  • People
  • World
  • Friends

• I'm a conservative but not because I care very much about the marginal tax rates of the richest Americans, rather I'm a market-oriented localist because I believe in cultural pluralism and I believe in the First Amendment, in voluntarism over compulsion whenever possible, and in as much de-centralized decision-making as is conceivably feasible.

  

  Benjamin E. Sasse
  • I Believe
  • Americans
  • Pluralism

• What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.

  

  Norman Douglas
  • Order
  • Collections
  • Platitudes

• And every book, you find, has its own social group--friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party in the library that need never, ever end.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Book
  • Friends
  • Party

• Sport must be accessible to working class youth.

  

  Pierre de Coubertin