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
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• 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
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• 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
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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
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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
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• I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.

  

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

  

  E. L. James
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  • Work
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• 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
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• Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
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  • Moments
  • Now

• We need a NASA-like organization for ocean exploration, because we need to be exploring and protecting our life support systems here on Earth.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Support

• They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.

  

  Imelda Marcos
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• If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
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  • Men
  • Long

• A strong human spirit with control over appetites of the flesh is master over emotions and passions and not a slave to them. That kind of freedom is as vital to the spirit as oxygen is to the body! Freedom from self-slavery is true liberation!

  

  Russell M. Nelson
  • Strong
  • Passion
  • Spirit

• If a kid is being bullied at school, my advice to them is to punch the bully in the face. The government can create as many boards, commissions, and informational sessions on sensitivity that it wants. The fact is, we still have bullies, and we still have victims who are trained not to stand up for themselves.

  

  Joe Wurzelbacher
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• 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
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  • Opinion