Jesse Owens Quotes
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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My whole reason for creating a network is literally to bring little pieces of light. It's to continue to spread little pieces of light in the world, to illuminate the possibility of the human spirit.
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I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.
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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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When you're young, you're stupid.
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A house divided against itself cannot stand.
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I actually started in comedy, but then after 'Deadwood' I started concentrating on the dramas more. But then I just got tired for raping and killing and figured, 'It's time to do another comedy.'
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I try to do as many different roles as the system will allow me. That's the benefit of not being in a giant blockbuster where you're the lead and you get typecast in that kind of role. I am able to slip in or out of a lot of different parts.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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While actors are great and awesome, writers literally create new worlds from scratch. What is sexier than that? Personally, I don't know why every last person out there isn't dating a writer.
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My everyday job is about superficial beauty, but when I'm not working I prefer to work on my inner beauty - I read a lot, I try to learn.
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The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people.
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It is everybody's wish to work with Mani Ratnam.
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I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.
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I've always been very inspired by fashion. I've always been a big fan of style.
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I don't want to be the center of attention, which is ironic. I hate having all eyes on me - unless it's for my job, and my job is playing football. I'm not that attention-hungry.
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I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past.
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Deism, historically, produces atheism. First you make God a landlord, then an absent landlord, then he becomes simply absent.
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Work is personal in the same way that finding a friend or partner is personal.
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Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
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Nonfiction ties your hands a bit, and just like writing poetry in rhyme, it can force you to make more brutal decisions in terms of word choice, plot, etc.
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Another old friend gone!
