Jesse Owens Quotes

If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.

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• My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Life
  • Happy
  • My Life

• To tell you the truth, I hadn't seen any Pixar until I went to see 'Wall-E,' and I watched it and I was shocked to see how adult it was, with the setting in our lives, both present and future, and how they dealt with it... And then quite relieved to find that the one I was working on, 'Up,' how adult it was.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Future

• Redlining went beyond FHA-backed loans and spread to the entire mortgage industry, which was already rife with racism, excluding black people from most legitimate means of obtaining a mortgage.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Black
  • Racism

• I think eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to be with NASA's help.

  

  Sally Ride
  • People
  • Help
  • Think

• I love poker!

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Poker

• You walk into the class in second grade. You can't read. What are you going to do if you're going to make it? You identify the smart kid. You make friends with him. You sit next to him. You grow a team around you. You delegate your work to others. You learn how to talk your way out of a tight spot.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Team

• I've had people break into profiles on my Internet; they got into my accounts. This was at the beginning of my career. There is a fair bit of alarm when something like that happens. It definitely bothered me a lot at the time. But you move on from these things.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • People
  • Time
  • Career

• It's odd to grow up in a gaming town because... we know all of the tricks that are going on behind the scenes.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Up
  • Know
  • Grow

• I blame feminism and Facebook for the death of the American automobile. I'm a Republican, so I blame everything on feminism - or commies.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • American
  • Death
  • Blame

• Baseball is just my job.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Job
  • Baseball
  • Just

• When I was young, people were almost identified solely by the kind of music they liked. People fell into categories of who liked what.

  

  Sade Adu
  • People
  • Music
  • Kind

• There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enough to qualify.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Music
  • Live
  • Enough

• I am responsible for me. I can kind of take care of what I need to do and should do what I like to do.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Like
  • Care
  • Responsible

• I hate that expression, 'fusion.' What it means to me is this movement where nothing ever really fused.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Hate
  • Me
  • Expression

• Basically, I see Iran as an authentic nation-state. And that authentic identity gives it cohesion, which most of the Middle East lacks.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Identity
  • Most
  • Iran

• But in this case, he had my cell phone and my phone was ringing and I had just come back from Australia on the plane and I thought it was my mum and it was Woody Allen just checking to see if I wanted to be in his movie.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Movie
  • Thought
  • See

• Most activism is brought about by us ordinary people.

  

  Patricia Hill Collins
  • People
  • Most
  • Ordinary

• It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having passed one's childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not. I consider myself fortunate to have been born here, rather than in Boston, or New York, or London.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • People
  • Done
  • Environment

• Some people think that the people they lead are too stupid to be told the truth, and thus they must be lied to, in order for a greater good to be accomplished. Some people believe in the system that has been set up, where the strongest among us is going to lead us in a fight, otherwise everyone is the same. That's the doctrine of pirates.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• When you have examined all the illusions of life and know that there isn't any reality, but you nevertheless go on, then you are a mature human being. You accept the idea that it is all mask and illusion and that people are in disguise. You see the crumbl.

  

  Marguerite Young
  • People
  • Life
  • Reality

• And no matter how serious an environmental problem the automobile poses in today's big city, the horse was dirtier, smelled worse, killed and maimed more people, and congested the streets just as much.

  

  Peter Drucker
  • People
  • Today
  • City

• If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.

  

  Jesse Owens