Jackie Robinson Quotes
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
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There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.
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I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'
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You know, we don't have any decorative sprigs of rosemary; we're not placing little matchstick radishes onto an hors d'oeuvre... The food's gotta taste good. The concept's gotta taste good.
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I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.
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From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are the real thing. You have to concentrate for five days. It's a lot of time, and not easy to do it day in and day out. If people have played 70-100 Tests, it's a lot of cricket, a lot of concentration and dedication.
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I think we should balance the federal budget tomorrow. I'm optimistic. I think Americans are optimistic. We went to the moon; we can balance the federal budget.
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In 1787, many Americans were convinced that the 'perpetual union' they had created in winning independence was collapsing. Six years earlier, in the Articles of Confederation, the thirteen state governments had surrendered extensive powers to a congress of delegates from each state legislature.
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
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The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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We couldn't get along without him. We needed Johnny as much as he needed the gang. And for the same reason.
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Part of the reason why so many actors lose the plot when they go over to America is that they become part of an industry, so that's why they don't want to play weak, bad or vulnerable guys - because that's not sellable; that diminishes their profit margin.
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The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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I needed to join the Navy. If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies, they say the United States won the war and saved the world.
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In life every effort is marked down at the end as a win or a loss.
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A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
