Jesse Owens Quotes
I decided I wasn't going to come down. I was going to fly. I was going to stay up in the air forever.Jesse Owens
Quotes to Explore
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
I. M. Pei -
Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.
Tabatha Coffey -
I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.
Imtiaz Ali -
My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
Ilyasah Shabazz -
Beautiful updos with natural hair are great!
Zendaya -
Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.
Florence Nightingale
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
Dane Cook -
Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.
Rand Paul -
All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
Gary Weiss -
I don't run after successful directors. I give importance to the content of the film.
Ram Charan -
If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.
Wanda Sykes -
I sort of always had an inkling towards some kind of an art form. I grew up in a very small town, and I just figure-skated. My dad played hockey and I was surrounded by sports, but it wasn't quite doing it for me. I wasn't totally fulfilled, and I did a lot of skating.
Rachel McAdams
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I have to recognize that my voice is attached to my body, which gets tired.
Verite -
I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.
Adam Hochschild -
I've already fought my share. God gave me a rich, eventful career, and I thank God for everything, but I'm done fighting.
Fedor Emelianenko -
I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -
Sometimes I feel I hope I am not taking advantage of my stardom.
Salman Khan -
I don't write shows with dialogue where actors have to memorize dialogue. I write the scenes where we know everything that's going to happen. There's an outline of about seven or eight pages, and then we improvise it.
Larry David
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I have certainly had my share of long-distance love affairs.
Drew Barrymore -
And threat'ning France, plac'd like a painted Jove,Kept idle thunder in his lifted hand.
John Dryden -
I love wearing green, and I like grey and black, but I don't think they really suit me.
Kate Williams -
Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's nothing bad in it, but that does not make me a feminist writer. I hate that name. The tag is from the Western world - like we are called the Third World.
Buchi Emecheta -
My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.
Nastassja Kinski -
I decided I wasn't going to come down. I was going to fly. I was going to stay up in the air forever.
Jesse Owens