Pierre de Coubertin Quotes
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Abigail Adams -
I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
Carl Hiaasen -
I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.
Laura Marling -
I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.
Gary Ross -
Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans.
Orlando Bloom -
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.
Questlove
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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.
Maggie Wheeler -
I am just an artiste, and I like to explore new avenues.
Ram Charan -
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.
J. D. Vance -
But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.
Jack Vance -
The Internet is a toilet. It is.
Lady Gaga -
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?
Queen Latifah
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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.
Ornette Coleman -
Sophocles was a general: a warrior writing plays about military situations.
Adam Driver -
I can imagine it's hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn't know.
Taylor Swift -
When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body.
C. Northcote Parkinson -
Until the seventeenth century there was no concept of evidence with which to pose the problem of induction!
Ian Hacking -
Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ.
Oswald Chambers
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In various countries around the world, assets that had previously been in the hands of governments were sold off to the private sector in the hope that this would lead to a more efficient allocation, that these assets would be put to better use.
Eric Maskin -
While I am alive, I intend to live.
Everett Ruess -
The trouble with New York today is that it's lost its balance. I love the new, greener New York, but it takes all kinds of worlds to make a World.
Brian Cox -
In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty.
Pierre de Coubertin