Jim Brown Quotes

I don't want football to not be played, but I would like the sophistication brought forth to take care of those who need to be taken care of and to take the precaution, at the sacrifice of winning, to take care of people.

Jim Brown

• People
• Taken
• Football
• Winning
• Sacrifice

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• I'm training and preparing because nothing is predictable in boxing. I'm preparing for those rounds, and if it happens that I get a shot, whatever advantage I have, I will be ready for 12 rounds.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Training
  • Boxing
  • Ready

• 'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It was non-Equity, so I lived in L.A. on $300 a week. I did that for a month and then came to New York to do a couple of gigs, including 'Hair' in the park, before going to London with 'Sister Act,' where I played the lead.

  

  Patina Miller
  • School
  • Hair
  • Couple

• I want to entertain people, but with some substance.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • People
  • Want
  • Substance

• Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.

  

  W. Eugene Smith
  • Distance
  • Potential
  • Horizon

• If you're an artist, you're an artist; that's the only way I can explain it.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • You
  • Artist
  • Explain

• I'm addicted to food, so if you bring the cake and stuff to my house, I might walk by and take a swipe of icing and keep it moving. So what happens is I try to not keep it around.

  

  Fat Joe
  • House
  • Food
  • Moving

• I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Why
  • Success
  • Day

• To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Long
  • Children
  • Young

• There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.

  

  Ted Williams
  • Up
  • Yourself
  • Mad

• It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Like
  • China
  • Egg

• I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Like
  • Secret
  • Wrong

• Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Accountability
  • Corrupt

• Dating is kind of hard. Like dinner or something like that. Like a forced awkward situation is very strange. Especially for me, for some reason.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Me
  • Dating
  • Dinner

• I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.

  

  Young Thug
  • Want
  • Forever
  • Rap

• Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • People
  • Work
  • Hope

• I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Language
  • Meaningful
  • Sounds

• I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Happy
  • Career
  • Marriage

• In South Africa, I feel I am a stranger, at best an animal.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Animal
  • Stranger
  • South Africa

• Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Remember
  • Beginning

• Perhaps... I mean there are people who defend that it as an art. I don't. I like it but it's not an art form as far as I'm concerned, and yet it's a similar thing, once you can't land those jumps, you're disqualified - that precludes it from ever becoming a serious art form.

  

  Mark Morris
  • People
  • Art
  • Serious

• Thank you for reminding Canada that I'm a disappointment to them. I like hockey, I love it, but I'm not an avid hockey - let's face it, true Canadian - fan. I've always been more into snowboarding and skateboarding and sort of the alternative sports, I'm not crazy about hockey - but love it!

  

  Dustin Milligan
  • True
  • Crazy
  • Sports

• In 2010, we have to focus on electing a new Congress and in 2012 we have to focus on electing a new president.

  

  Andrew P. Harris
  • Focus

• Talent comes with an individual name tag.

  

  Charles Handy
  • Talent
  • Tag

• I don't want football to not be played, but I would like the sophistication brought forth to take care of those who need to be taken care of and to take the precaution, at the sacrifice of winning, to take care of people.

  

  Jim Brown
  • People
  • Taken
  • Football