Jesse Owens Quotes
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Actually, I had no idea what shooting hoops was or were. I thought dunking was something you did with a beignet and a cup of steaming coffee. I wasn't exactly sure what a Knick was.
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This is part of what's driving me, is this feeling like there's so much yet to be discovered in the oceans, and we're destroying it before we even know what's in it.
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It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
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I wear jewellery that I never take off. I have a ring and two necklaces. I always have them on and get scared when I have to take them off for photo shoots. The ring is my mum's mum's mum's, and she gave it to me for my 18th birthday. The necklace is the same one that my sister has. She's called Hannah, and the name is the chain.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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I think the gay community, just like anybody, should be represented in all forms and all types.
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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
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Being, in the testimony it gives of itself, informs us not only about what it is but also about what we owe it.
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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
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One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a more vulnerable place when one has a grandchild, or now I have two. And I think that possibly there's some tenderness that came out of just time and age and being a parent and grandparent.
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I'm always happy and most at home on the stage. I love film and television, but I love live performance... your immediacy with the audience, it makes all the difference in the world.
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Politics is the one field you don't age out of.
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I don't let things go unless I'm ready for them to go.
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The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.
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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
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Our fielders have to catch a lot of balls, or at least deflect them to someone who can.
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Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.
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Everybody in the Olympics is paid. Lindsay Vonn is going to make a million dollars whether she skis or not.
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I'll be the first to admit it, the life I'm leading is basically a joke. I should probably be cooler about it, but I can't fake it, you know?
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Prayer in action is love, love in action is service.
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I am standing like shoe polish on an overstocked shelf hoping that one day someone will pick me to make things better.
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I remember when I interviewed at MSNBC, one of the first things they said to me was, 'In your tapes, you had a mustache, right?' I said, 'Yeah, I recently took it off.' I said, 'If you hire me, you get to decide if you want it or not.' They said, 'No, no, we're fine with it now.'
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I'm old now. It's all right.
