Jackie Robinson Quotes

Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.

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• Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Life
  • American
  • Eating

• A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • Life
  • Day
  • Morning

• Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American life is exactly like the 'Saturday Evening Post' covers of Norman Rockwell. 'It's A Wonderful Life,' the latest example of Capracorn, shows his art at a hysterical pitch.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Life
  • Art
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• The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • You
  • First
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• To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • My Life
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• I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.

  

  Candace Kita
  • Life
  • Up
  • Home

• I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies.

  

  E. L. James
  • Life
  • Work
  • My Life

• Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Life
  • Art
  • Nature

• The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Life
  • Together
  • Peace

• After my 10th standard, my life took me into the world of cinema, but I never severed my ties with my love for reading.

  

  Manju Warrier
  • Life
  • World
  • Love

• Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Life
  • Dead
  • Alive

• I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Life
  • Help
  • Never

• I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • You
  • Know
  • Sensitive

• Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.

  

  Dalia Mogahed
  • Life
  • Today
  • Change

• If you support amnesty, you should vote for the Democrats.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • You
  • Support
  • Vote

• You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.

  

  Samantha Mathis
  • You
  • Human
  • Human being

• If you bet on Microsoft, you are not going to ask anymore, 'Hey, where is the innovation?' The challenge going forward is how do we keep up with it.

  

  B. Kevin Turner
  • Up
  • You
  • Challenge

• I have both joyful and heartbreaking moments in life, even now. Stardom doesn't give us everything.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Life
  • Moments
  • Now

• Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn't matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material ... Don't wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Life
  • Experience

• But the main thing is that medication, too, is not all the help.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Help
  • Medication
  • Main

• The thing that I find interesting about teens now is that no matter how desperate we seem to be taxonomically 'othering' them, for one reason or another - because the Internet, because whatever - I feel like a lot of the benchmarks and the experiences are, you know, same for teens through time immemorial.

  

  Mary H.K. Choi
  • Time
  • Interesting

• One can make this generalization about men: they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers, they shun danger and are greedy for profit; while you treat them well, they are yours. They would shed their blood for you, risk their property, their lives, their children, so long, as I said above, as danger is remote; but when you are in danger they turn against you.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Risk
  • Blood
  • Property

• The very important thing you should have is patience.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Important
  • You
  • Patience

• Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Life
  • You
  • Opinion