Jesse Owens Quotes

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• If you start lifting weights, you will expect to put weight on, as muscle is heavier than fat. But you have to look more at your body shape - you will get heavier - but you might get smaller and heavier at the same time, which is fine. And it doesn't really matter what you weigh as long as you are happy with your shape and size!

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Time
  • Long
  • Happy

• Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are a form of money that's a stable field that the government can't destroy and can't distort. Because its creation is governed by the laws of mathematics. It can't happen any faster or slower than a certain rate, and it all sort of self-adjusts.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Money
  • Creation
  • Mathematics

• The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Artist
  • Worst
  • Unhappy

• I do love doing films; I love going out and creating different characters for each film, and not having to be stuck with one role for many, many years. It's a creative liberty that I love.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Different
  • Love
  • Creative

• The economy needs thriving, job-creating small businesses, but excessive and ill-considered regulations too often get in the way of growth.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Job
  • Small
  • Growth

• I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Music
  • Artist
  • Acting

• Maybe 'America first' means also that you have to deal with America first.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • America
  • You
  • First

• I think I was just lucky to be brought up in a very musical family. My two older brothers were, and still are, very musical and very creative, and music was a big part of my life from a very young age, so it is quite natural for me to become involved in music in the way that I did.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• My looks have changed. I have laugh lines - not wrinkles.

  

  Iman
  • Looks
  • Laugh
  • Wrinkles

• In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Men
  • Women
  • Death

• Fans are all I care about - to be honest. If they stop coming to the shows, then I will get worried.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Stop
  • Care
  • Fans

• I could easily go one or two days without realizing that I'm so, so hungry. That's the negative outcome of what I've become.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • Negative
  • Hungry
  • Days

• The Lakers have been nothing but great to me, and I want to keep the relationship great.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Great
  • Want
  • Me

• As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Nature
  • View
  • Contrast

• Like every artist that comes out, you want to make a mark; you want to be a household name and you want to be someone that people are going to look back in ten years/fifteen years' time and go, 'I love this guy Olly Murs. He was brilliant back in the day; he was someone I really, really liked.'

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Time
  • Day

• I fracked over 3,000 wells in my life and never had a problem with an aquifer.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Life
  • Problem
  • My Life

• As an actor, you spend a lot of your life in hotel rooms.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Life
  • Actor
  • Hotel

• My yachts were, I suppose, outstanding status symbols.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Symbols
  • Status
  • Outstanding

• Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain. This 'tis possible will be thought, by kind parents, a very unnatural thing towards their children; and by most, unreasonable...

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Great
  • Children
  • Parents

• Magnetic current is the same as electric current. Current is [actually] the wrong expression. Really it is not one current, they are two currents, one current is composed of North Pole individual magnets in concentrated streams and the other is composed of South Pole individual magnets in concentrated streams, and they are are running one stream against the other stream in whirling, screwlike fashion, and with high speed.

  

  Edward Leedskalnin
  • Current
  • Magnet
  • Pole

• In Canada, good waitresses are tipped well. I learnt that the harder you work, the more money you make.

  

  Katherine Ryan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Money

• Many people do not realize that where unions have bargaining rights employers cannot raise wages or improve benefit plans any more than they can reduce them without of the consent of the union.

  

  Charles E. Wilson
  • People

• I think there is a lot of fat in the government.

  

  Luis Fortuno

• One chance is all you need.

  

  Jesse Owens