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.

  

  Jackson Brundage
  • Kind
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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.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Done
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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.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
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  • Hate
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• I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Down
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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.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • People
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• I feel like I'm five sometimes because I still enjoy myself. I enjoy what I do.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Myself
  • Sometimes
  • Enjoy

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

  

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

  

  Bailee Madison
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  • Follow

• 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
  • Work
  • Thinking

• 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
  • Home
  • Easy
  • Coffee

• 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
  • Remember
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  • Alone

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

  

  Pat Brown
  • Women
  • Children
  • Own

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

  

  Wale
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Passion

• 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
  • Important
  • Balance
  • Find

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

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Time
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  • Same

• 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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  • Feel

• Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

  

  Ovid
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  • Materials
  • Surpass

• In Hollywood, there's a network of creative executives, and when they hear something is good, it catches fire.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • Good
  • Fire
  • Creative

• The teacher should make a concerted effort never to lose his temper in the presence of the class. If a man, he may take refuge in profane soliloquies. If a woman, she may follow the example of one sweet-faced tranquil girl who went out in the yard and gnawed a post.

  

  William Lyon Phelps
  • Men
  • Girl
  • Education

• I'm a huge Jackie Chan fan, and my boyfriend is Taiwanese, and he doesn't like to read. He had this Jackie Chan book, and I was asking him questions about him, and he didn't know, and I said, 'What do you mean you don't know? You have the Jackie Chan autobiography right there on the bookshelf!'

  

  Lauren Ashley Carter
  • Book
  • Boyfriend

• Definitely trust yourself. Work hard. Be honest with yourself. And life can be joyful. It is joyful. Just give it your all, and it's all going to work out.

  

  Katie Holmes
  • Life
  • Work
  • Trust

• Ours is a long marriage, and we have found solitude together.

  

  Carolyn Heilbrun
  • Together
  • Marriage
  • Solitude

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

  

  Pierre de Coubertin
  • Effort