Juan Antonio Samaranch Quotes

Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture.

Juan Antonio Samaranch

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• We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Work
  • Country
  • Happiness

• I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • People
  • Trying
  • Book

• Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • May
  • Know
  • Values

• The good name of the United Nations is one of its most valuable assets - but also one of its most vulnerable. The Charter calls on staff to uphold the highest levels of efficiency, competence and integrity, and I will seek to ensure to build a solid reputation for living up to that standard.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Up
  • Good
  • Integrity

• You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Movie
  • Hope
  • Know

• I have been lucky enough to travel a lot, meet great people in many lands. I have liked almost everyone I met along the way.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Great
  • Travel

• If man was the relative of animals, then animals were the relatives of man, and in degrees bearers of that inwardness of which man, the most advanced of their kin, is conscious in himself.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Man
  • Animals
  • Relatives

• I reveled in the most basic rules and techniques that are the foundation of professional cooking. For example, it is essential to use a sharp knife: the sharper the knife, the more fluid and precise your work and the less likely you are to get hurt. Dull knives are a danger - they slip far more often.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Work
  • Hurt
  • Professional

• I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.

  

  Irving Penn
  • Art
  • Photography
  • Hunger

• I initially wanted to work in the music industry more on the A&R side. While I was in school, I began working in the New Business department of an advertising firm, and very quickly I was responsible for roughly 70% of their business, so you could say I had a natural knack for the advertising world.

  

  Adam Kluger
  • World
  • Work
  • Music

• As far as is possible under the ruthless tyranny the organized labor of Soviet Russia is everywhere in a state of full revolt.

  

  Samuel Gompers

• No women in ancient Rome ever had the vote.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Women

• I know I'm not a self-indulgent idiot; I also know I'm not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those, or both, as some people do when they get famous, that's when the mental illness arrives.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • People
  • Famous

• Everybody should work in their nation's capitol and see how politics actually work because it was the most eye opening experience of my life.

  

  Jake Tapper
  • Life
  • Work
  • Experience

• People approach you for the work they have seen you do. I don't think people see me as a lover boy dancing around, so I haven't received a role of that kind. I'm going to do roles that appeal to me.

  

  Barun Sobti
  • People
  • Work
  • Boy

• When we perform music at TV shows, we always try to do something that's not scripted because anything that's a surprise for the audience and the crew and the other performers, it works better on camera and for the people back home, too.

  

  Lukas Forchhammer Lukas Graham
  • People
  • Music
  • Home

• I did loads of auditions and I didn't get called back. I still get giddy at all the people I get to work with, and I'm still enjoying the work and enjoying life too much that I don't feel like I've done that much.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• The teachers are trying to build the same culture in the classroom as we're building in the organization.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Trying
  • Culture
  • Organization

• My beliefs encompass all religions. But I never show my religious inclination in my films. My characters have dark sides; they aren't the god-fearing characters. It wasn't a conscious decision. I'm a very lazy and emotional person who connects with the common man.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • God
  • Man
  • Dark

• A government, to afford the needful protection and exercise proper care for the welfare of a people, must have homogeneity in its constituents. It is this necessity which has divided the human race into separate nations, and finally has defeated the grandest efforts which conquerors have made to give unlimited extent to their domain.

  

  Jefferson Davis
  • People
  • Exercise

• Modern man was not meant to do his best work before forty but is by nature, and is becoming more so, an afternoon and evening worker.

  

  G. Stanley Hall
  • Work
  • Men
  • Nature

• Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture.

  

  Juan Antonio Samaranch
  • Culture
  • Sport
  • Olympics