Wilma Rudolph Quotes
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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I always wanted to do a bit of Bollywood and a bit of Hollywood.
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Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.
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I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
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The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
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OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it.
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Our troops do an incredible job every single day, but our policymakers have not lived up to the sacrifices that our troops make every day.
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One of the things about the '70s films I love - the films 'Nightcrawler' is being compared to, like, 'Taxi Driver' - is that they never put their flawed characters into any one box.
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Yes, my mom does keep making references to marriage, like all mothers do, but it's only in a lighter mood... she just jokes.
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I'm so appreciative that people have begun to recognize my work in a way where it can afford me more opportunities.
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Athletes at all ages are bigger and stronger than ever before. And they are being encouraged - sometimes even incentivized, as we recently learned was the case on at least one National Football League team - to play to injure.
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It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it's like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I'm not fighting. I don't have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody.
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I used to love fine dining, but I lost my appetite for it to a degree because sometimes it is too much about the effort and too little about the result.
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I should not get Social Security. I think it's a travesty for a man of my success and of my means to get anything from the federal government.
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I kind of like to be a sponge, in a way. So everywhere that I am, I like to keep an open mind and just get ideas from everything.
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You would be amazed how many people call my office looking for work every day.
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It's pretty traumatic knowing that your instrument that's your career isn't working, and you've got to have an operation.
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Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.
