Pierre de Coubertin Quotes
Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.
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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.
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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.
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Touring helped me understand where I needed to be better in my music.
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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.
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More money has been lost trying to imitate 'Rocky' than 'Rocky' has made.
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There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
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I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.
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I have very high standards for every part of life - my work, my relationships, food, love. I can't just pretend.
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Economics is not a discipline that comes to correct answers - economies are too complex.
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Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.
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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.
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Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science. Its principles may be eternal, but the expression of those principles requires continual development.
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I go to restaurants and the groups always play 'Yesterday.' I even signed a guy's violin in Spain after he played us 'Yesterday.' He couldn't understand that I didn't write the song. But I guess he couldn't have gone from table to table playing 'I Am The Walrus.'
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There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.
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I watch what I eat every day. I mean, who actually eats with their eyes closed?
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The efforts you make will surely be rewarded. If not, then you are simply not ready to call them efforts.
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I'm a staunch anti-Castro individual.
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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.
