Alfred Edgar Coppard (A. E. Coppard) Quotes
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The black press, some liberal sportswriters, and even a few politicians were banging away at those Jim Crow barriers in baseball. I never expected the walls to come tumbling down in my lifetime.
Jackie Robinson
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Equality for men and women, across the world, not only in sports, is the goal. We obviously have a long way to go, but every little bit helps.
Venus Williams
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Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
Edith Hamilton
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The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
Karl Marx
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The excitement right now is coming from the Liberty movement. And the Republicans want a piece of it.
Gary Johnson
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I never even thought about being an actor. Somebody asked me if I'd like to learn the craft, and I said, 'Okay.' I was a gymnast in a show at that time, and somebody asked me afterwards one night. I performed as a gymnast for nine years, and then I did acting after that.
Mads Mikkelsen
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I learned life from some good teachers.
Eddie Murray
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I do miss 'Battlestar', the cast and crew. That was a pretty well-oiled machine. It's sort of like you don't know what you've got till it's gone. But I go to a lot of sci-fi conventions, and I love going and talking about the show.
Aaron Douglas
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My father ran a corner drug store where he worked night and day, seven days a week, until he died of a stroke. He literally worked himself to death.
R. T. Rybak
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And when his hours are numbered, and the world Is all his own, retiring, as he were not, Leaves, when the sun appears, astonished Art To mimic in slow structures, stone by stone Built in an age, the mad wind's night-work, The frolic architecture of the snow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Such a stupid act. Sometimes heroics revolted him; they seemed like an insult to the soldier who weighed the risks of the situation and made calm, cunning decisions based on experience and imagination, the sort of unshowy soldiering that didn’t win medals but wars.
Iain Banks
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There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.
Isaac Asimov
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Praise the bridge that carried you over.
George Colman
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The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep.
James Thurber
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If we'd had another carefree 70's, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you know? I don't know how carefree they were for me, I think I was worried then, I can't remember what about.
Randy Newman
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For dynamic energy, driving force, and discipline, the Russian Communist Party is unique the world over, perhaps even throughout history.
Louis Fischer
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Leadership is not about being nice. it's about being right and being strong
Paul Keating
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Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always.
Alfred Edgar Coppard
