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

• Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Good
  • Fantasy
  • Only

• 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

• It was a difficult second record. I had moments where I couldn't write; had moments where I was writing lots. It was just a massive learning process for me.

  

  Flume
  • Writing
  • Learning
  • Moments

• 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 get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Music
  • Write
  • Lyrics

• 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

• I think every mother feels that the best place for their child is with their mum, but you want things for yourself, too. So, you're either at work feeling guilty, or you are at home feeling frustrated.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Work
  • Home
  • Mother

• 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

• It's fun conjuring what people will be wearing in the future. We exist in this world today, and yet there are people walking around who still look like they're in the '60s.

  

  Colleen Atwood
  • People
  • World
  • Fun

• 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

• As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.

  

  Serj Tankian System Of A Down
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Song

• Everything around you, especially your home environment, mirrors your inner self. So by changing your home, you also change the possibilities in your own life. Removing the obstacles to the harmonious flow of energy in your living environment creates more harmony in your life and the space for wonderful new opportunities to come to you.

  

  Karen Kingston
  • Home
  • Opportunity
  • Energy

• I think it's real easy to look at what's out there and get discouraged. I was never the best-looking guy, I was never the Tom Cruise-looking guy. I think the biggest thing I can say is, 'Don't compare yourself.'

  

  Craig Sheffer
  • Real
  • Guy

• And you're sorry that the ephemeral beauty has faded so rapidly, so irretrievably, that it flashed so deceptively and pointlessly before your eyes - you're sorry, for you didn't even have time to fall in love.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Beauty
  • Sorry
  • Fall In Love

• Men don't have as many difficulties and are more supported to combine the different aspects of their life.

  

  Emma Bonino
  • Life
  • Men
  • Different

• 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