Jesse Owens Quotes
Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
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I am enjoying my face changing, as well as realizing that at the same time, as you get older, the machine isn't as well-oiled as it was.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.
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A good lie detector doesn't jump to conclusions but tries to understand the person across the table, her personality, and her motivations. Your goal as a lie spotter isn't to point the finger and say, 'You're lying' - your goal is to get to the truth.
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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
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Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
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Virtually all of Darfur's six million residents are Muslim, and, because of decades of intermarriage, almost everyone has dark skin and African features.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
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The relationship between ARMgold and Harmony continues to develop and grow.
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You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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I write autobiographically, although I apply liberal amounts of poetic license.
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There are horses people use for competition, and if they don't perform well or go lame, then people ask the vet to put them down to get the insurance money. And my vet knows I love horses, so he gives them to me.
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I want to win a gold medal in London.
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You think I'm a fool?" demanded Harry. "No, I think you're like James," said Lupin, "who would have regarded it as the height of dishonor to mistrust his friends.
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In the U.S., search engines are king. That is because everyone already knows what they are looking for. Brands have been around for a long time.
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Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
