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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The female mind is capable of understanding analytic geometry... The difficulty may just be that we have never yet discovered a way to communicate with the female mind. If it is done in the right way, you may be able to get something out of it.
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The big problem of our modern society is that we feel that we are separated from the nature. But it's just the opposite. We are interrelated and our DNA is the same. And only when human beings understand that, the nature will not be obstacle.
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I'm so touched that complete strangers will send me a script asking me to be in their film. That still amazes me - and sometimes for a lot of money too.
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The adoring crowds and overwhelming Democratic support in the 2008 election was based largely on joy at jettisoning Bush and the appeal of electing a superbly qualified charismatic African American leader.
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I'm old now. It's all right.
