Pierre de Coubertin Quotes
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.
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I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.
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Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans.
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Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.
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I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.
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I am just an artiste, and I like to explore new avenues.
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It's not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural and the cultural barriers that so many poor kids face. But I think that if you don't recognize both, you risk being heartless or condescending, and often both.
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But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.
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The Internet is a toilet. It is.
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Don't you want to know what's real and what's not? I remember when I was a kid, you know, this whole Cold War thing. They had us scared of the Russians. So, it's almost like, what's real and what's not?
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I don't really live like a musician myself. I think music is just something that I do, but I'd like to be doing lots of other things. I like to cure all kinds of illness.
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Sophocles was a general: a warrior writing plays about military situations.
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I can imagine it's hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn't know.
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When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body.
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Until the seventeenth century there was no concept of evidence with which to pose the problem of induction!
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When an architect is asked what his best building is, he usually answers, "The next one."
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I feel a lot of unfinished business and loyalty and responsibility to get the Raiders going again.
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Do not let us imagine that we can take into our fellowship and enlist under one banner men who simply affirm truth about Jesus, unless in their own lives there is an absolute loyalty to the Lord Christ.
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss. A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.
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In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty.
