Jackie Robinson Quotes
Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.
Jackie Robinson
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We don't really watch basketball in Australia.
Iggy Azalea
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We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
Edmund White
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She was a great lady. We raised three boys, were together as long as she lived, and now she's passed on.
Earl Scruggs
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Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.
J. Philippe Rushton
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I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering 'The Lost Chord' on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn.
Naomi Shihab Nye
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The difference between me and the newer artists is that I have the history with the architects, the masters that started the music. I know where the music came from.
Rickie Lee Skaggs
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Remember, your goal is to trade well, not to trade often.
Alexander Elder
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Imperialism, or the conquest and colonization of other populations, other peoples, has had as one of its side effects the growth of a discourse of objectivity. That is, when you encounter something new, something strange, something different, you have to find categories for it, you have to come to terms with new objects.
W. J. T. Mitchell
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
Salvador Dali
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Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.
Jackie Robinson