Jesse Owens Quotes
Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
Jesse Owens
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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.
Kate Winslet
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
Vikas Swarup
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
Jackie Mason
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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.
O. Henry
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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.
Pamela Meyer
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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
Gary Weiss
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
T. C. Boyle
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I phoned Joe Roth, who was head of the studio at the time, and told him how beautiful the film was, and that I was fully ready to support it, that Michael's work was wonderful and I imagined that Daniel would feel the same. He listened quietly and read between the lines.
Madeleine Stowe
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In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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The relationship between ARMgold and Harmony continues to develop and grow.
Patrice Motsepe
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There are clearly many good politicians who are guided by religious belief, so the mix can work. But there's a line to be drawn. It would be hugely dangerous for a country's laws to be set by the scriptures, and particularly those of the expansionist religions.
Zac Goldsmith
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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.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Tom Foley was a statesman, and it was a privilege to serve under him when he was the Speaker of the House. He loved our country. He was a gentleman. I had the privilege of seeing him a couple days before he passed away.
Nancy Pelosi
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I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.
Elizabeth I
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If we can take the time to mute the noise we've build around ourselves the rhythm of the heartbeats and the purpose may be clear.
Dawud Wharnsby Ali
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My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.
Kailash Kher
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Sometimes, from outside, and from America especially, where the racial tension is so intense, you tend to understand Brazil as a kind of ideal situation, but it's not. There are a lot of problems. Historically, we have been in struggle, in real struggle to protect and defend the natural leaning towards absorbing the African and the Indian heritage that our society has.
Gilberto Gil
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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.
Jesse Owens
