John Wooden Quotes
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
Bear Grylls -
I think whatever you have in your life, my opinion is that if you know that there's something wrong, you try to fix it.
Daniel Bryan -
I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.
Adam Baldwin -
I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.
Harold Ford, Jr. -
The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
Jackson Katz -
Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
Barry White
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I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
Manu Bennett -
The French complain of everything, and always.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.
Earl Campbell -
When the phonies are expelled from their leadership roles and the Republican Party backs a moderate gubernatorial candidate acceptable to the rank and file with proper financing and the intestinal fortitude to fight the good fight, the rank and file will rejoin the fold.
Carl Paladino -
What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.
Walter Martin -
A well begun is half ended.
A. C. Benson
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
Barton Gellman -
Tech never comes back the same.
Samuel J. Palmisano -
It used to be that I wanted to be taller. Once I made 5-foot-1, I was happy.
Tara Lipinski -
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
Edith Wharton -
I don't know anyone who likes the American League games better. Maybe some fans do. But if you're not an actual DH, you probably prefer the National League.
Zack Greinke -
The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result.
Sadaharu Oh
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In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.
Donald Trump -
National parks are the best expression of social equity that there is. It's like paying our rent for living on the planet.
Douglas Tompkins -
Prison, with its daily rhythm, with the transfer and the defense, does not leave any time; prison dissolves time: This is the principal form of punishment in a capitalist society.
Antonio Negri -
Surely women's liberation is a most unpromising panacea. But the movement is working politically, because our sexuality is so confused, our masculinity so uncertain, and our families so beleaguered that no one knows what they are for or how they are sustained.
George Gilder -
Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.
John Wooden