Pierre de Coubertin Quotes

In no way can sport be considered a luxury object.

Pierre de Coubertin

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• What's so fun when you shoot in a car is you get to research all the other road movies that have ever been done, and you try to figure out where do they place the cameras and how many shots can you get with your people in the car. So just doing the research on the films is so fun.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • People
  • Done
  • Fun

• The President has been a big proponent of the public option since the campaign.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • President
  • Option
  • Big

• I like doing my own stunts.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Like
  • Doing
  • My Own

• A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'

  

  A. P. Martinich
  • Good
  • Philosophy
  • Grammar

• I haven't read enough of the Bible. You know, I'm saving the Bible for if I ever get imprisoned, and the only reading material was the Bible.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Know
  • Reading
  • Bible

• I'm vegan on home base, but when I travel to other countries, I throw it all into the garbage.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Home
  • Travel
  • Vegan

• Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Person
  • Talent
  • Genius

• When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.

  

  Sam Ewing
  • Home
  • Childhood
  • Find

• I started this charity, Fashion for Relief, in 2005, after Hurricane Katrina happened. New Orleans was actually the first place I visited in the United States. It was one of my first big jobs, a shoot for British 'Elle.' It was April 14, 1986.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Fashion
  • Charity
  • April

• It was a very big principle in my upbringing that you should respect everybody's work. The street sweeper. Everybody. You should never look down on anybody for their work.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Look

• 'It must be nice to think there is a true reality,' says Miss Callendar. 'I've always found reality a matter of great debate.'

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • Great
  • True
  • Reality

• Having a period of - well, austerity, shall we say - certainly humbles you.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Period

• Ice formed on the butler's upper slopes.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering-pot and pruning-knife.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Live
  • Training

• Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time; and live according to nature the remainder which is allowed thee.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Remember that neither the future nor the past pains thee, but only the present. But this is reduced to a very little, if thou only circumscribest it, and chidest thy mind, if it is unable to hold out against even this.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Mind
  • Remember
  • Future

• How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to gradually change the world! How wonderful it is that everyone, great and small, can immediately help bring about justice by giving of themselves! ... You can always - always - give something, even if it's a simple act of kindness!

  

  Anne Frank
  • World
  • Great
  • Help

• From my youth onwards, I have felt sure that all thought which thinks itself out to an issue ends in mysticism. In the stillness of the African jungle I have been able to work out this thought and give it expression.

  

  Albert Schweitzer
  • Work

• Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Heaven
  • Tears
  • Hearts

• God guided me to America and gave me a good job. But he also gave me a heart so I would look back.

  

  Manute Bol
  • Good
  • God
  • Heart

• I've had one fall that I kind of hurt my toe pretty badly because I slammed into one of the set pieces. But, you know, you just get up and keep going. The adrenaline's pumping, and you just carry on!

  

  Carmen Cusack
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Fall

• I love to sing all kinds of music, but I know that my heart is for people to know God, and I want them to experience his love.

  

  Lauren Daigle
  • People
  • Music
  • God

• When you lie about your age, the terrorists win.

  

  Carol Leifer
  • Age
  • Winning
  • Lying

• In no way can sport be considered a luxury object.

  

  Pierre de Coubertin