Pierre de Coubertin Quotes

Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.

Pierre de Coubertin

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• I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.

  

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• I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.

  

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• Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.

  

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• I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.

  

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• The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.

  

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• I feel like I'm five sometimes because I still enjoy myself. I enjoy what I do.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
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• The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
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• I'd like to follow in the footsteps along like Jodie Foster and Natalie Portman, who got their education.

  

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• In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Life
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• Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
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• Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.

  

  Wayne Dyer
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• Last but not least among serial killer methodologies, we have women who kill their own children.

  

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• I used to have a real passion for writing, but not so much anymore - probably because I do too much of it.

  

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• Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.

  

  Warren Bennis
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• I'd like there to be consistently more women's storylines going on at the same time.

  

  Becky Lynch
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• Let's face it, the great comedians now that are handicapped in the looks department are tremendous writers.

  

  Jack Black
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• The reality is our story and the way we love and our taste in clothing and everything else. And what we ambitiously feel we can be.

  

  Omari Hardwick
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• Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

  

  Ovid
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  • Surpass

• I hate to let people down. I was like that in sports and I was like that in comedy. I was like that at work. When I worked General Motors and stuff like that, when I say something, I mean it.

  

  Bernie Mac
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• If you're sensitive, you will have a hard time with me.

  

  Bill Parcells
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• Next-generation networks are hard to build. It takes a lot of money and effort to lay fiber, install wireless infrastructure, build satellite earth stations, and more. It also requires a reasonably certain business case for deployment, which is all too often hard to prove in parts of the country with sparse population and/or lower incomes.

  

  Ajit Pai
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• Failure is part of discovering the problem you need to be working on. If, as an entrepreneur, you are afraid to fail or to admit the failure of your efforts, then you completely lose any chance at being able to adapt and succeed at finding the problem that needs solving.

  

  Caterina Fake
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• 'It is not crazy to think that powerful people do some pretty horrible things. And maybe they get out of hand. Maybe it just gets away from them. It snowballs.'

  

  Janeane Garofalo
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• Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.

  

  Pierre de Coubertin
  • Effort