Crazy Legs (Richard Colón) Quotes

Our immediate influence in b-boying was James Brown, point blank.

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• The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Lie
  • Measure
  • Tape

• To his credit, Obama has undertaken a truly ambitious effort to redefine the United States' view of the world and to reconnect the United States with the emerging historical context of the twenty-first century. He has done this remarkably well.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Done
  • Effort

• Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Fall
  • Impossible
  • Compromise

• One day there were two out in the ninth, and I hit a pop fly so high that the fans got tired of waiting for it to come down. So they all went home and listened to it drop by turning on the radio.

  

  Ted Lyons
  • Home
  • High
  • Day

• I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • Great
  • Different
  • Art

• Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.

  

  Nas
  • Hip Hop
  • Noise
  • Spotlight

• While studying at Barcelona, Ignatius was in doubt whether, after completing his studies, he should enter some Religious Order, or go from place to place, according to his custom. He decided to enter upon the religious life.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Life
  • Religious
  • Doubt

• It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Important
  • Successful
  • First

• I'm very happy in my life, but I do feel that music has a power to transport you to places or to beautiful moments in your past.

  

  Washed Out
  • Life
  • Music
  • Power

• There are lots of reasons for that gap between men's and women's wages but to me, the big one is the work-family issue. Trying to juggle children and a job is tough under any circumstances, but especially if you're shooting for the kind of career that involves long hours at work and being on call 24-7.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Work
  • Men
  • Long

• I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Mind
  • Personality

• I love gardening, and I love cooking. I love things like that. I love creating things.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Love
  • Cooking
  • Gardening

• I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • You
  • Famous
  • Theory

• I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Like

• I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists.

  

  Taylor Phinney
  • Parents
  • Kind
  • Fact

• Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Time
  • World
  • Young

• We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • Life
  • Plan
  • Jews

• By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Science
  • Faith
  • Achievement

• And I see the - you know, when I go to the juvenile detention centers and prisons, I see people who can't read now. And I know that when they leave those prisons and those detention centers, they're not going to be able to make it in our society.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • Society
  • Know

• Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Life
  • Work
  • Respect

• Study detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination.

  

  Isaac Watts
  • Mind
  • Imagination
  • Study

• I don't want to rewrite history.

  

  Keith Fullerton Whitman
  • History
  • Rewrite

• I grew in the inner city, listening to Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, James Brown, The Commodores - lots of soul music.

  

  Stefon Harris
  • Soul
  • Wonder
  • Listening

• Our immediate influence in b-boying was James Brown, point blank.

  

  Crazy Legs
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  • Brown