Wilma Rudolph Quotes
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At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.
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I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.
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If something is mine, then I want to keep it.
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I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.
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To oppose something is to maintain it.
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Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?
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No matter how many times you say Social Security is broke, the reality is that Social Security's independent revenue stream and its Trust Fund's investments maintain the program's solvency until 2037, when it may begin to fall short.
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If I'm so popular, why did they replace me with Tommy Thayer?
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We must have serious dialogue between Catalonia and the Spanish state on a referendum, on independence, and on how a separation from Spain - if that's what the Catalan people choose - would be accomplished.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore.
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Using a service such as Chegg.com, students can save on average more than $600 a year when they rent textbooks over purchasing them.
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I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.
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Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.
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It's the 21st century. It's untenable to suggest that women had no significance and no interest and that just because they didn't vote they had no relevance to the course of our history.
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I love badminton. That's my sport!
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I admire those people who hold on to their elegance in old age but I'd rather have fun.
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Turkey does not have an official exchange rate target.
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Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.
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The President can pardon us again... and again and again, but... picketing will continue, and sooner or later, he will have to do something about it.
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I knew that whatever I set my mind to do. I could do.
