Roberto Clemente Quotes

I am from the poor people; I represent the poor people. I like workers. I like people that suffer because these people have a different approach to life from the people that have everything and don't know what suffering is.

Roberto Clemente

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• I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • School
  • College
  • Wall

• My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Drawing
  • Library
  • Walls

• I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Myself
  • Spirit

• I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Black

• I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Want
  • Rock
  • Seem

• My senior year of high school, I got into UCLA, but my family couldn't afford it.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Family
  • School
  • High

• I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Work
  • Past
  • Feel

• We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Time
  • War

• I love Mount Fuji and I think it is my love of the mountains in Japan that led me to seek other mountains around the world.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • World
  • Love
  • Me

• The best thing women in tech can do is to invest in other women.

  

  Christine Tsai
  • Women

• I listened to classical music. I listened to jazz. I listened to everything. And I started becoming interested in the sounds of jazz. And I went to a concert of Jazz at the Philharmonic when we lived in Omaha, Nebraska, and I saw Charlie Parker play and Billie Holiday sing and Lester Young play, and that did it. I said, 'That's what I want to do.'

  

  Charlie Haden
  • Music
  • Holiday

• I'm always asked, 'What's the secret to success?' But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Success
  • Humble
  • Work Hard

• Because I am Olympic champion, everyone assumes I am this perfect athlete who should never lose. Every time I step in the ring, I am expected to win.

  

  Jade Jones
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Athlete

• Her friends say she is very funny. At a family dinner, she stood to go, and the footman very properly pulled her chair away. At that moment I asked her a question and she sat down again, except there was no chair. Everyone, including the Queen, laughed and laughed.

  

  Prince Andrew
  • Family
  • She
  • Friends

• 'Ugly Betty' taught me everything about fashion.

  

  Mark Indelicato
  • Fashion
  • Ugly

• My beauty secret is to try to keep my heart as open and happy as I can, because it really makes the sad lines on my face look better.

  

  Lea Thompson
  • Heart
  • Happy
  • Sad

• We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness.

  

  Mary Astell
  • True
  • Happy
  • Knowledge

• I'm a games and theory kind of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare's prose.

  

  Neil Patrick Harris
  • Fun
  • Guy

• Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.

  

  John Dryden
  • Tired
  • Fool

• I have to look after myself. I go to the gym every day; I have physio every day, I have a couple of guys that work with my body a lot.

  

  Adolfo Cambiaso
  • Work
  • Couple
  • Gym

• Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Finish

• I think the whole spoiler thing has taken over the media.

  

  Peter Capaldi
  • Taken

• The only thing God is building in this world is his church.

  

  Bakht Singh
  • World
  • God
  • Church

• I am from the poor people; I represent the poor people. I like workers. I like people that suffer because these people have a different approach to life from the people that have everything and don't know what suffering is.

  

  Roberto Clemente
  • Different
  • Suffering
  • Poor