Althea Gibson Quotes

Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown.

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• Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That's the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.

  

  Narendra Modi
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  • Good
  • Work

• I've been a novelist since 1995 and have had novels in and out of option, and watching that process just made me realize that I have to live by what I teach my students, because I teach screenwriting at Spellman.

  

  Tananarive Due
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  • Teach
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• I think I'd make a pretty good president, and they have a great pension plan.

  

  Pat Paulsen
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  • Great
  • Pretty

• When in doubt, wear a suit. Look at male politicians: you see them in a suit, and they look fine. But if you see a picture of them on the weekend or on vacation, there's a good chance they look terrible and unstylish.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
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  • Picture
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• Brad Pitt is amazingly talented and equally good-looking, too.

  

  Hansika Motwani
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  • Talented
  • Too

• Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.

  

  B. J. Novak
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  • You
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• When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God.

  

  Abu Bakr
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• In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.

  

  Daniel Craig
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  • Guy
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• If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.

  

  Sam Walton
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  • Chance
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• We Germans should know that we're good at constructing cars, and we have a lot of good qualities. But we're not the funniest.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
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  • Know
  • Qualities

• Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
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  • Reality
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• My short game's not that good. It just becomes a matter of getting that weight moving.

  

  Ozzie Smith
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  • Game
  • Moving

• I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.

  

  Jackie Stewart
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  • Said

• Cheney was among the best secretaries of defence the country has ever had. He was a very effective White House chief of staff. He did not make many enemies, and he had the ability to persuade people with that soft tone and very reasonable style of his. He's always been exceptionally good as the right-hand man.

  

  Barton Gellman
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• I've had more ups than downs in my career. All you can do is keep working. You still have to take enjoyment out of what you're doing, and things will turn, and my smile has always been there. In good moments and bad.

  

  Eden Hazard
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• I think fans always want something new, but they want somebody who can deliver - to go out there and really entertain them and have good matches.

  

  Daniel Bryan
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  • Think
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• I had a good job as a printer in the East End. Before the unions destroyed it, that job was very lucrative.

  

  Eddie Marsan
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  • Job
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• It's much funnier when the comedy can happen with me just trying my best to genuinely do a good thing.

  

  Nathan Fielder
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  • Trying
  • Comedy

• Sometimes it's a good idea to think about what you want from a situation, and try to get it, rather than just blurt out the first thing that comes into your head.

  

  E. Lockhart
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• If I were to listen to people all the time when they say, 'Hey, this is a really high challenge, this is a high climb, the bar is pretty steep,' then I wouldn't have gone to the academy. I wouldn't have become an aircraft carrier pilot. I wouldn't have become a Navy SEAL for sure. And I probably wouldn't have applied to Harvard.

  

  Gabriel E. Gomez
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• Character is character and voice is voice, which translates nicely from writing novels to writing TV. But the process is different. You have a writer's room, people pitch you jokes and you collaborate.

  

  Jennifer Weiner
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  • Writing

• The purpose of random testing is not to catch, punish, or expose students who use drugs, but to save their lives and discover abuse problems early so that students can grow up and learn in a drug-free environment.

  

  John Walters
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• The massive reduction in risk that is inherent in the development of the modern corporation has been far from fully appreciated.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith
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• Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown.

  

  Althea Gibson
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