Jim Thorpe Quotes
Track and field, because it was something I could do by myself, one-on-one, me against everybody else.
Quotes to Explore
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I think free speech is probably the coolest thing we have in this country, and again, you can label it hate speech and dismiss it, and then you're allowed to censor it.
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One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
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Election time is when you start to hear about 'average people,' 'working families,' 'patriotic Americans' and such.
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Any legitimate religion consists of rules of morality linked by love. That's it.
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If we are going to live as disciples of Jesus, we have to remember that all noble things are difficult. The Christian life is gloriously difficult, but the difficulty of it does not make us faint and cave in, it rouses us up to overcome.
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What we can be sure of, however, is that if the elections are not free and fair then Zimbabwe will be in the clearest and most flagrant breach of declarations to which they have signed up.
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When we gaze into the eyes of our beloved, we're staring into the eyes of a sacred mirror, and we recognize our oneness.
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From the very second that two people sat together around a fire in the forest, there was another human out there who felt better in the dark.
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We're not perfect, we're not clean cut. We're just trying to be ourselves.
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Nothing happens until you decide. Make a decision and watch your life move forward.
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I've always been a huge fan of theatre and performance. The idea of just the human voice and just this night. Live music is the same. They're doing it for you right now. It's an amazing thing. And if you perform a story properly, it can be a transporting, too.
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To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West - know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.
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We right now give $15 billion every year as subsidies to private insurers under the Medicare system. Doesn't work any better through the private insurers. They just skim off $15 billion.
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The free world wants to feed South Africa to the Red Crocodile [communism], to appease its hunger.
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It's beauty that captures your attention. Personality which captures your heart.
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We have to lower our guard and know saying something's wrong isn't a bad thing.
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I was engaged in what I believe to be the most thrilling industry in the world-aviation. My heart still leaps when I see a tiny two-seater plane soaring gracefully through the sky. Our great airlines awe me. Yet I know they were not produced in a day or a decade.
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Alcohol is like Photoshop for real life
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The one thing about the music business is that there is no rulebook. It's not like the NFL or something where there's four downs to get ten yards or baseball where it's three strikes and you're out.
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We are meeting here to put an end to this cycle of violence, to put things back in order and to put the wheel of peace on the right track. The task is very great, but our hopes are greater.
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Track and field, because it was something I could do by myself, one-on-one, me against everybody else.
