Juan Antonio Samaranch Quotes
Olympism is a philosophy which, by blending sport with culture, seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of good example and respect for universal ethical principles.
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As regards literary culture, it fascinates me that it has been so resilient to the Union. For example, when T.S. Eliot wanted to become poet in these lands, it wasn't as an English poet, it was an Anglian poet he wanted to be.
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Muslims remain the most convenient target for prejudice in a city like Delhi, which is far more ghettoized than Bombay or Bangalore, for example.
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I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era.
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When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.
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I remember at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Shaq always wanted me to show him steps over and over.
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To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.
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If you're going to stay in the Olympics, you've got to be entertaining and get sponsorship.
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Every tech product on the body like Jawbone or in the home like August is different. But there are definitely principles that apply across the board for me, such as integration in everyday life and discretion.
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I don't know what it means to be out there against the Olympics.
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The professionals must set a good example.
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None of us is designed for the role we must assume in a revolutionary society, although Cubans had the privilege of Jose Marti's example.
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I'm pretty well grounded in Christian principles.
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I don't subscribe to the idea that the founders or anyone else were somehow better than us and that we have to live up to their example.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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Olympics is everyone's dream.
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Principles of motion take precedence over sequence of motion.
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What is the nature of the search? you ask. Really it is very simple, at least for a fellow like me; so simple that it is easily overlooked. The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. This morning, for example, I felt as if I had come to myself on a strange island.
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It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for 'Scent of a Woman.' It was a new feeling. I'd never felt it. I don't see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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On the superficiality of the industry: We are setting an example of what we think is beautiful and you really want to put that much make up on me?
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Wall Street billionaires are predicting that Roosevelt-style railroad rate regulation will sooner or later bring about financial catastrophe.
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A man never has good luck who has a bad wife.
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In giving advice, aptitude is often less to be considered, than seasonableness.
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My life will have been a succession of lives, as if I have had several lives, a multiplicity of stories and roles. I have not ceased to have changes of life.
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Olympism is a philosophy which, by blending sport with culture, seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of good example and respect for universal ethical principles.
