Jack Kent Cooke Quotes
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Lake Pend Oreille is definitely my favorite place to be while in Sandpoint. I love to get out on a boat to enjoy water sports, camping, fishing, or just to relax and catch a sunset.
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You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family... your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.
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Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
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Life is about timing.
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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Self-respect, the value of 'face,' is universal but is most pronounced in China, then in Japan where the Confucian ethic is most influential.
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The stance I took was there is no room for racial bias anywhere in sports. I believe that was basically all I said about it. Certainly I was cast as an abolitionist. Death threats came. Hate mail came.
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If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.
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I've never had anything done on my face. I've never had dermabrasion or peels or injections of any kind, nothing.
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I'd just like to be good at sports. I'm extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.
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The idea of the European community is never face a war again.
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The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.
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My childhood was a happy one. I was captain of the school sports team and played cricket after class. I had five younger siblings and a large loving family that lived together. We are still very close.
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Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
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Big will always be a part of my life. But I'm still on this Earth, so I have to live my life for now and the future.
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The air of the English is down-to-earth. They care about details; there's a tradition, but there's also a counter-culture: the younger generation versus the older generation and so on. But then that's well blended into a happy balance and crystallised into common sense.
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Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sports.
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I had a lump on my face and had a big cancer thing removed.
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Sometimes when earth's gods are homesick they visit in the still of the night the peaks where once they dwelt, and weep softly as they try to play in the olden way on remembered slopes.
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When I was younger, I played sports and went to camp. As I got older, my parents began to instill in us the importance of giving back to the community, especially those places around the world that are less fortunate than my very privileged life growing up in Los Angeles.
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We can't afford to stand pat while the world races by. The United States of America did not become the most prosperous nation on Earth by sheer luck or happenstance. We got here because each time a generation of Americans has faced a changing world, we have changed with it. We have not feared our future; we have shaped it.
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My best friend, Wil Wheaton, identifies himself as a geek.
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My little girls can break my heart. They can make me cry just looking at them eating their string beans.
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Sports are one of the main cultural activities on the face of the earth.
