Frank Deford Quotes
While swimming was always a spotlight sport, I was, if you will, sort of present at the creation when gymnastics became the new star lead-off hitter.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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The truth is, 'Charlie Hebdo' is not a racist magazine. Rather, it is a campaigning anti-racist left-wing magazine.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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I am not in the business of suppressing books.
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Strong limits on carbon pollution will save Americans money, create jobs, improve our health, and help defuse climate change.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.
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Growing up in the public spotlight and having insecurities like every other girl, I really know what it's like to feel self-conscious.
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Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.
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There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
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I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.
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I have a record I love, 'Limbo,' which is very catchy.
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I can't solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.
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American policies toward Asians reached a nadir in 1924, with the implementation of a law that sought 'to preserve the idea of American homogeneity' and denied admission to the country to most non-whites. Immigration from Asia was banned completely, with the establishment of an 'Asiatic Barred Zone.'
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You know, most people called rap stupid when it started, and it was one of the most innovative music forms of its time.
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The race will find that capitalists and communists modify themselves so much during the ages that they end by being indistinguishable as democrats.
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Privacy won't survive the present trajectory of technology - and with the sense of being perpetually watched, humans will behave more cautiously, less subversively. Our ideas about the competitive marketplace are at risk.
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I find that putting my make-up on and playing with different looks is really relaxing for me before the show. It kind of helps me make that transition from 'mommy' to 'performer,' or star or whatever you want to call it!
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I don’t believe in God and all that. But I am Jewish, and very proud to be so, very proud of the culture.
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I take classes to be a mortician.
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While swimming was always a spotlight sport, I was, if you will, sort of present at the creation when gymnastics became the new star lead-off hitter.
