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.

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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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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.
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I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.
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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.
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Beautiful updos with natural hair are great!
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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.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.
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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.
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I don't run after successful directors. I give importance to the content of the film.
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If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.
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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.
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I have to recognize that my voice is attached to my body, which gets tired.
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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.
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I've already fought my share. God gave me a rich, eventful career, and I thank God for everything, but I'm done fighting.
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I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
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Sometimes I feel I hope I am not taking advantage of my stardom.
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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.
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If you're a boxer, you have your trainer. As an actor, I have Ivana Chubbuck. She's my teacher as an actress and in this crazy thing called life.
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I can't explain why I shine and no one else shines. I think everybody shines in different things.
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The vast majority of people who have guns never hurt anybody.
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Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in.
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I am such a tomboy. I grew up fighting with boys, mainly - beating up boys, actually.
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I decided I wasn't going to come down. I was going to fly. I was going to stay up in the air forever.