Jesse Owens Quotes
Hitler didn't snub me; it was our president who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram.
Jesse Owens
Quotes to Explore
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We all have thoughts and feelings that we believe are fundamental to our lives but that are better left unspoken.
Adam Grant
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When you have a diagnosis of cancer, or any serious illness, your choices are basically to be passive and kind of accept whatever is offered you, or to be active and to learn about your disease, and understand your options, and be an active partner with your doctor. That's the course I took with all three of my cancers.
Hamilton Jordan
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I think it would be pompous to say I am an underrated actor. I don't think it is for me to think and decide; it is for people to decide. But I am glad I am underrated than being overrated - that is something I would find hard to digest.
Randeep Hooda
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The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
Ferdinand Foch
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Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.
Eckhart Tolle
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If you don't lose, you cannot enjoy the victories. So I have to accept both things.
Rafael Nadal
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At the heart of every faith system is a bargain: on one side there is the comfort that comes from a narrative that suggests human life has cosmic significance, and on the other a duty to yield to moral commands that can, in the moment, seem rather inconvenient.
Gary Hamel
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It's not going to be just humans colonizing space, it's going to be life moving out from the Earth, moving it into its kingdom. And the kingdom of life, of course, is going to be the universe.
Freeman Dyson
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My parents did great and provided well, and gave all their kids personal, moral, ethical values, not a belief that we were entitled to something.
Bonnie Hammer
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As the render is to the building, and the blueprint to the machine, so sport is to social existence.
Will Self
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Next to the disapproval of our friends, the approval of our enemies is most to be dreaded.
Octave Feuillet
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Hitler didn't snub me; it was our president who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram.
Jesse Owens