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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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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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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Charity plays an important role in upholding the values and advancing the work of the United Nations.
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I'm actually a big fan of having all the different types of voices on television. I think it gives people a nice little buffet that they can just pick and choose how they want to get their news and entertainment, I guess.
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My mother has been my mentor in my life. The number one attribute was discipline. To be on time to school, never miss a day at school, and then checking out homework and making sure I was doing it correctly and signing me up for lots of activities, extra tests and classes.
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I came across humanity in Istanbul, and all I know about life comes from Istanbul, and definitely, I am writing about Istanbul. I also love the city because I live there, it has formed me, and it's me. Of course it is natural. If somebody lived all his life in Delhi, he will write about Delhi.
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It's a wonderful world. You can't go backwards. You're always moving forward. It's the wonderful part about life. And that's terrific.
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Be known as a great resource. Are you an Excel genius? An expert on local restaurants? Fabulous at proofreading? Go beyond your job description by being an open resource for others in the company who could benefit from your talents. I believe that paying it forward will serve you well one way or another in the future.
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More than 3,500 hardcover novels are published each year. Even the most avid reader buys fewer than one a week.
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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.
