Pierre de Coubertin Quotes
Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.Pierre de Coubertin
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I'd love to see more middle and high school teachers who are not teaching English develop classroom libraries. Our message to kids should be that reading is for everyone.
Rae Carson -
When I played sports, if you lose the game, and then you complain, that makes you a sore loser. That doesn't make you protester - that just makes you a whiner.
D. B. Sweeney -
My dad went to jail for a long time. We lost everything, and the situation never resolved itself. My parents had this sort of passionate, disastrous desire for each other - not ideal to grow up in.
Natalia Kills -
Touring helped me understand where I needed to be better in my music.
Vince Staples -
Getting to do 'December Songs' in a cabaret-style format was so interesting because it's like a one-woman song cycle that actually tells a story. It feels like a theatrical experience more than a cabaret because I didn't talk in between. We went from one song to the next, nine songs in a row - bam - I told the story in half an hour.
Laura Osnes -
More money has been lost trying to imitate 'Rocky' than 'Rocky' has made.
Irwin Winkler
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There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
P. G. Wodehouse -
I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.
Ice Cube -
Actors are conditioned to develop a system for expressing as much as they can in the shortest amount of time because you're going to get all cut up in a movie.
Campbell Scott -
Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of poor kids. Go ahead, get a little enthused.
Maggie Gallagher -
They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.
Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner -
There is a sense of purity in theatre which always attracts me. Deep down, I feel I am more of an artist than a commodity, which Bollywood turns you into. I want to strike a balance.
Randeep Hooda
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All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.
Damon Lindelof -
What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.
Rand Paul -
I have very high standards for every part of life - my work, my relationships, food, love. I can't just pretend.
Olivia Wilde -
Economics is not a discipline that comes to correct answers - economies are too complex.
Adam Davidson -
Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.
Vijay Singh -
In order to obtain the optimum view of what takes place in front of me, I should have to lower my eyes a little. But I lower my eyes no more. In a word, I only see what appears close beside me, what I best see I see ill.
Samuel Beckett
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
Ultimately, even if you follow the advice of a mentor or board member, it's still your fault if they were wrong!
David Cohen -
We're right here on this very spot. Besides, being lost is never a matter of not knowing where you are; it's a matter of not knowing where you aren't - and I don't care at all about where I'm not.
Norton Juster -
Being insignificant statistically doesn't mean it's right or wrong. It just means you don't have enough data to show yes or no.
Heidi Hammel -
Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.
Pierre de Coubertin