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.
Jackie Robinson -
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.
Oprah Winfrey -
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.
Camille Paglia -
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.
Oscar Wilde -
When you're young, you're stupid.
Wendy Hiller -
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Abraham Lincoln
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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.'
Garret Dillahunt -
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.
Patrick Wilson -
I definitely like wearing leotards.
Maddie Ziegler -
Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
E. O. Wilson -
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.
Bar Refaeli -
The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people.
Oscar Isaac
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It is everybody's wish to work with Mani Ratnam.
Ram Charan -
I've always been very inspired by fashion. I've always been a big fan of style.
L'Wren Scott -
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.
Cam Newton -
I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.
Harriet Tubman -
It’ll be the ballot or it’ll be the bullet. It’ll be liberty or it’ll be death. And if you’re not ready to pay that price don’t use the word freedom in your vocabulary.
Malcolm X -
I got the recall, the second audition. That was when I started sweating. This huge thing. And it was so secretive I couldn't even tell BBC reception where I was going, had to pretend it was for something called Panic Moon, which is an anagram of companion.
Karen Gillan
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Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees -
But now? well now, now I have no fear of Witches, goblins, ghosts, thugs, Giants, ghouls, scallywags, etc, nor any sort of body.
Francisco Goya -
Full disclosure: James Comey is a friend. I won't pretend to neutrality about him. He is a highly honorable and decent person, and I have no doubt that he made the many judgments for which people loathe him in good faith.
Benjamin Wittes -
Another old friend gone!
Jesse Owens