Wilma Rudolph Quotes
What do you do after you are world-famous and nineteen or twenty and you have sat with prime ministers, kings and queens, the Pope? Do you go back home and take a job? What do you do to keep your sanity? You come back to the real world.Wilma Rudolph
Quotes to Explore
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Hamas says in its charter they want to see a world without Israel. They want to obliterate Israel.
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen -
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
W. H. Auden -
Readers want to have the confidence that you understand the era in which the book is set, so for 'The Perfumer's Secret,' I needed to know everything about the First World War from a French perspective. I had to understand those people and that town in 1914.
Fiona McIntosh -
On a personal level, there are many people who have meant a great deal to me. My father and mother were certainly of vital importance, not only in themselves but because they created a world for me to revolt against.
Ingmar Bergman -
I think what is happening is I think first of all there is confidence in the U.K. economy. We're in a German rather than a Greek position in international financial markets, which is very positive and keeps our debt service costs down, and we're also beginning to see real evidence of rebalancing.
Vince Cable -
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
Oscar Wilde
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The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.
Walter Bagehot -
I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.
Mallory Jansen -
The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.
Ma Jian -
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
Samuel Johnson -
I'm not the pedigree kid. I'm not classically trained. I didn't come from the fancy home, no.
Kate Winslet -
Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.
Victoria Moran
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I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.
Orson Welles -
One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.
Pam Brown -
My dad had a Vincent Black Shadow, which was a quite particular thing: it was the fastest cycle of its era... It sparked a world for me; when I was old enough, I got a motorcycle.
Rachel Kushner -
There have been some good studies done in California with Hispanic parents where in the course of a year, they have changed their entire nutritional intake for the better. The kid becomes, in a sense, the bridge between the educational process and the home.
C. Everett Koop -
I weave the company into what we laughingly call 'Jack's novel.' I write this novel for them about who they are and what's going on in their world. When I had 90 people in 'Porgy and Bess,' each had a story, history and family relationship.
Jack O'Brien -
I feel real confidence in working on the stage.
Orlando Bloom
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Big Ben... hearing the chimes makes me feel at home.
Jane Birkin -
My friend, there is no end when it comes to 'Trapped In The Closet.'
R. Kelly -
I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity.
Rachel McAdams -
Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.
Lady Gaga -
What do you do after you are world-famous and nineteen or twenty and you have sat with prime ministers, kings and queens, the Pope? Do you go back home and take a job? What do you do to keep your sanity? You come back to the real world.
Wilma Rudolph