Jim Brown Quotes

The story of Jackie Robinson is also the story of Branch Rickey. He had many reasons for doing what he did, but he stood up against his own people.

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• I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Inspiration
  • Movies
  • Video

• Let's help those in prison maintain positive connections with their community. If we truly want re-entry to be successful, and we do, people need to come back to a place that still feels like home.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • People
  • Home
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• I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Myself
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• Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Attention
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  • Turn

• Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.

  

  Jack Youngblood
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• Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Interesting
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• I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy.

  

  Sam Wyly
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• Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • More
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• I got to write most of everything I said.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Said
  • Everything
  • Got

• I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.

  

  Dan Webster
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• I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.

  

  Jack Ma
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  • Model

• But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.

  

  Patrick Stewart
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• The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
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• Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.

  

  Dan Gertler
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• I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.

  

  Sam Kinison
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• While I have the greatest respect for the Supreme Court's members, I cannot claim familiarity with any particular judicial philosophies the justices might possess.

  

  Patricia Millett
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• There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
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• You know, rap is sort of like a form of talking, right? So it's like you can hear, you know, the slaves doing it. You can hear, like, you know, Africans and Jamaicans doing it just kind of as, like, a rhythmic, poetic conversation, you know, to a rhythm.

  

  Nas
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• I've always been interested in making movies.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Always
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  • Interested

• If we were writing what the fans wanted to see, Betty and Jughead would be the most linear, monotonous narrative of all time.

  

  Cole Sprouse
  • Time
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• What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall.

  

  Carl Stokes
  • Children
  • City
  • Closing

• We have a political culture of intimidation, of favoring, of patronage, and of fear, and that is no way for a community to be governed.

  

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
  • Political
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  • Fear

• I have lifestyle requirements. Photos, meetings, lunches, dinners, facial care, tooth care. It requires an exorbitant amount of money.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Money
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• The story of Jackie Robinson is also the story of Branch Rickey. He had many reasons for doing what he did, but he stood up against his own people.

  

  Jim Brown
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