Jackie Robinson Quotes

I think if we go back and check our record, the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been more than patient in seeking our rights as American citizens.

Jackie Robinson

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• Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically appear that help me work through it.

  

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• I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.

  

  Gary Burghoff
  • Kid
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• My dad lived by example. I lived by watching him. I watched all the great things he did and said. I try to walk that talk for my children.

  

  Laila Ali
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• I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.

  

  L. Neil Smith
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• My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.

  

  Maggie Q
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• God made a mistake with me. I'm actually black, trapped in a white body.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • God
  • Black
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• There's a puppy store near where I live. They know me by name in there because I go so often.

  

  Laura Robson
  • Live
  • Name
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• The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Control
  • Mistake

• The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Beginning
  • Attitude
  • Losing

• The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • World
  • Women
  • Power

• I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Long
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• Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Me
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  • Kind

• Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • World
  • Black

• My head's never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch 'CSI' or 'Law & Order,' where I have to follow the crime. If I can't turn my head off during that, I know I've really got a problem.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• We always trend set.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Always
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• It's a voluntary act. I cannot punish anyone not taking the public transport, but I want everyone, from the highest ranking officers to the lowest, to take public transport every Wednesday.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Want
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• I would wear entirely one color: tutus, furry pants. It was totally outrageous. My family was deeply embarrassed to be seen with me.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Family
  • Color
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• Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Man
  • Determination
  • Quiet

• War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • War
  • Unfolding

• One of the most important aspects that feed a thriving economy is successful businesses, so the more startups that take off, the better the financial picture is for everyone.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Important
  • Picture
  • Financial

• You don't go to the library and walk along and pick out a topic. You are riding the bus, or shopping at Safeway, and all of a sudden the idea comes to you.

  

  Edward P. Jones
  • Library
  • Shopping

• All of us grow.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Grow
  • U.S.

• You can't be hesitant about who you are.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Hesitant

• I think if we go back and check our record, the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been more than patient in seeking our rights as American citizens.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • American
  • Think
  • Doubt