Taylor Branch Quotes
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I just love playing so much, competing so much. You're able to put your losses behind you. One of the greatest attributes a decathlete can have is the ability to forget... to look ahead, not behind.
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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I work legs, upper body, everything. Legs are very important. I do hang cleans and squats - I do primary exercises. Squats work over 60 percent of your muscle mass in your body. The hang cleans work on my explosive movement, which is essential for success.
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The idea of it becomes a little freaky if you're dealing with someone who has trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality, but that's a concern no matter what kind of movie you're dealing with.
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Democrats hate America being a world power because world power gives power to the nation instead of to Democrats.
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To be among the world's greatest athletes and compete for Team U.S.A. while knowing that the entire world is watching is something that athletes dream about. To be able to experience that was truly special.
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The focus of Congress is on keeping the nation secure - and it doesn't see that food security is an essential part of that responsibility. Instead of putting more food on the tables of America, they are busy finding ways to take it away.
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I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.
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A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.
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In a small space, you want to keep the bedding as simple as possible so it looks clean, calm and collected.
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The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.
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I just like playing unique characters that I love.
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Thanks to every gay person in public and non-public life who has come out.
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'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared into the depths of the Internet. That's no small feat. Every book series owes J.K. Rowling a debt of gratitude.
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The key to America's economic future is educating kids as early in their lives as we can.
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Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.
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I think the best comedies came out during the Depression. Personally.
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I have noticed that my likes and dislikes do not create any great excitement. And how people try to get away when I attempt to talk!
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World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.
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Our brain is essentially programmed to enjoy carbohydrates because they give us a sense of fullness and a rush of pleasure. When people go on low-carb diets, they start to almost subconsciously experience distress from eating carbohydrates.
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Anyone who is going to make anything out of history will, sooner or later, have to do most of the work himself. He will have to read, and consider, and reconsider, and then read some more.
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Some have said that it is not the business of private men to meddle with government--a bold and dishonest saying, which is fit to come from no mouth but that of a tyrant or a slave. To say that private men have nothing to do with government is to say that private men have nothing to do with their own happiness or misery; that people ought not to concern themselves whether they be naked or clothed, fed or starved, deceived or instructed, protected or destroyed.
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Martin Luther King was a leader for all Americans on our own professed values.
