Race Quotes
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The race may not always be to the swift nor the victory to the strong, but that's how you bet.
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We have got to move away from the concept of race and color because that is what apartheid is. We cannot end apartheid if we retain these concepts.
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It seems to me we have been in a rhetorical arms race in this country, with each side unwilling to lay down its weapons for fear – usually justified – the other side would beat them to a pulp.
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Whatever class and race divergences exist, top cats are tom cats.
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There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even peace.
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A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.
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All my life, I have been surrounded by the track. The week I was born, Dad took me to training. I do recall at some stage being pushed around in a pram on a track. I have a lot of inspiration from him. To see him carrying the Sydney Olympic torch really ignited my dream. As a coach, he knows the in and outs of race walking and technique.
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Close to the end, when I saw Sam coming, I tried to make a move. I tried to take advantage of the momentum, put me side by side with Dan. But it just was not enough. If we would be like NASCAR and have bumpers, I'm sure we would have won the race by now.
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I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare.
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The human race has not devised any way of dissolving barriers, getting to know the other chap fast, breaking the ice, that is one-tenth as handy and efficient as letting you and the other chap, or chaps, cease to be totally sober at about the same rate in agreeable surroundings.
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Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did.
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I still do intense interval training. I like miles and quarters best. In races I can set my mind, and I believe I could break 2:20 again.
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You can't buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.
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There is no more evil thing in this world than race prejudice, none at all. [...] It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty, and abomination than any other sort of error in the world.
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Please don't erase my race because I'm white-passing. There is literally nothing I can do about my complexion.
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It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.
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A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.
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Never meddle with play-actors, for they're a favoured race.
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Actors are a race.
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The goal of abolishing the white race is on its face so desirable that some may find it hard to believe that it could incur any opposition other than from committed white supremacists......Keep bashing the dead white males, and the live ones, and the females, too, until the social construct known as the white race is destroyed. Not deconstructed, but destroyed.”
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In those long, lonely miles you put in during the off-season, and in those knife-in-the-gut track repetitions and hill repeats that buckle your knees - at that moment in almost every race when you ask yourself how much you're willing to hurt to catch one more runner - you can draw strength and inspiration from your running mates.
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I'm constantly watching my weight for my job, and I've trained so hard this year to be ready for this season-more rigorously than ever - but people who tune in to Formula One have no comprehension of what we have to do to be fit. It's so physical. This year, the car is way faster than when you came to the race. And the physicality has gone up quite a lot, at least 20 to 30 percent. People don't see that. They don't see us as athletes. They just see us driving.
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The monkey is an organized sarcasm upon the human race.
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Snake has been everything to me. Look at where I was when I started with the company in 1988 and where I'm at now. I mean, he's shown me just about everything on and off the race track.
