Major Owens Quotes
The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power.
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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I do not have bad days. I don't wake up in the morning and think that I'm going to get AIDS. I don't dream bad dreams about it. If I did, I'd be giving in to the negativity.
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How can you be on top of the things you do? I think when you are involved in a business, first of all you need to know the business. After that you know the business, you can - the numbers tell you what is happening. You can read with the numbers.
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I know where my body's at, know how it feels, you know.
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I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training hard, you know, why can't I train hard to get a world record. I'm doing the same thing.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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I'm not a sun person.
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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Playing hard to get is not the way to win me over. I'm definitely more for the girl who can smile and laugh all the time and just have a good time!
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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I work legs, upper body, everything. Legs are very important. I do hang cleans and squats - I do primary exercises. Squats work over 60 percent of your muscle mass in your body. The hang cleans work on my explosive movement, which is essential for success.
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In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control of you.
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Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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I think 'crazy' is a compliment. I think you make money with people who are crazy.
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The child who is permitted to torment, or destroy, the minutest object in creation, who will wantonly tread upon a worm, or unhumanly pass a pin through the body of a fly, will in all probabiilty, as he increases in years, feel no more compunction at tormenting a fellow-creature, than he did in witnessing the wreathing agonies of a fly.
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I run a program called Amer-I-Can. We've taught in prisons, schools, juvenile facilities and we teach in the community. We have the greatest record from the standpoint of dealing with grade point averages, disciplinary action and attendance in schools.
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What's been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
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One of the interesting things an artist does is they keep rediscovering things, whether it's a jazz piece or a role you've done for 3,000 performances or a song you're singing for the 3,000th time. My job is to find that spark that keeps it fresh and alive.
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The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power.
