Pierre de Coubertin Quotes
The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.
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A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
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The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.
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When all are wrong, everyone is right.
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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I like to discover new things.
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I'm super lucky because I come home and I don't have to run errands and clean the house and do all that.
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I just felt that you can't have a character fall in love so madly as they did in the last movie and not finish it off, understand it, get some closure. That's why the movie is called 'Quantum of Solace' - that's exactly what he's looking for.
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As a child, I was hyper, I was a clown and I was sensitive. Today I'm all of the above, except I've refrained from bouncing off the walls.
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I have a garden. We have fresh tomatoes and strawberries. People are different here... People out in California, they grow up quicker. They have a lot of excess, and they have a lot more things than we do here in Hungary. There, they start doing makeup when they're 13, when we would still be out in the countryside making sausage.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally.
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The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
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It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
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I'm not wed to bitcoin's blockchain. I'm blockchain-agnostic.
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One of the things we tell ourselves as African-Americans is if we work hard, play by the rules, we do start back a little ways, but if we can be twice as good, somehow we can escape history and heritage and legacy.
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Sometimes a serendipitous reaction occurs when a network asks you if you have any ideas for a series, at a time when your creative flow is working in that direction.
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There's a reason why bullying takes such a strong form online. People don't have to push back as much as they would in real life.
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No disease is more dangerous than a bad husband, for if a woman catches that Pox, she'll languish from it her entire life.
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I suppose most crime writing is urban. There's not a lot... certainly not in Australia, people don't often set books in the countryside.
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The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.
