Pierre de Coubertin Quotes
A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.Pierre de Coubertin
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
Zadie Smith -
Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
I can tell you, all the intelligence services in the world were running my name through their databases to see did anyone by this name come in the country? When? Do we know anything about it? Where did she stay? Who did she see?
Valerie Plame -
I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
Rachel Stevens -
I actually have a fear of the water because I nearly drowned. I got caught in a rip tide, and I wasn't a good swimmer because that was when I was emigrating from England to Australia.
Naomi Watts -
I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
Octavia Spencer
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
Rand Paul -
There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
Edmund Phelps -
You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat.' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don't.
J. C. Watts -
Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
Ramsey Clark -
The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center serves as a poignant reminder of our past and a trusted source of education for schoolchildren, community members, and visitors from across the country.
J. B. Pritzker -
I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'
Frances McDormand
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I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.
Olga Kurylenko -
My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
T Bone Burnett -
I thought what would be really just choice for a revamp and a reboot is 'The Greatest American Hero.' I think I'd be just that kind of perfect not prepared for this kind of thing, but thrust into circumstances he's not prepared for... that's another niche of mine. Unpreparedness. Not knowing what to do. I'm good at being that guy.
Nathan Fillion -
Only amazing designers think of the truly new.
Patrick Demarchelier -
I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
Orson Welles -
No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
J. B. Pritzker -
Yeah, I still feel as if I have things to do really. I'm not ready to stop.
Peter Hook New Order -
We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.
Hamilton Jordan -
The modern composer is a madman who persists in manufacturing an article which nobody wants.
Arthur Honegger -
A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.
Pierre de Coubertin