Avery Brundage Quotes
The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV.
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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This is one hell of a business I picked to be in.
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I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
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I think 'Tap Dogs' has lasted so long because people have a natural interest in tap dancing. This form of dancing can't be dated, it's such an intriguing form of dance because the feet are also an an instrument.
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In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way for parents to get treatment for their children is to turn the custody of those children over to the State.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
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I don't consider myself a celebrity and I don't consider myself a star.
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You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
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It is not known, now, for what length of time the Tuatha de Danaan had the sway over Ireland, and it is likely it was a long time they had it, but they were put from it at last.
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I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
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Mumbai is like Manhattan. There's a certain pace, a social life and the thrill of a professional life.
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Never in a million years would I think I'd play in a Super Bowl.
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I had a teacher at school who said, 'We are going to do a play next year, and you're in it.' He said, 'You should try out for the Royal Academy as an actor.' I did and got in. I was 17. My mum wasn't too happy, but it worked out OK.
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There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
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I feel like so many people invalidate the experience of transgender girls thinking that they aren't regular girls, but I am a normal girl.
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The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.
