Jim Brown Quotes

Nobody I ever broke bread with, and I see players all the time, talked about using their head running the football.

Jim Brown

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 17, 1936

Topics

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To be a queen of a household is a powerful thing.

Jill Scott

HomeQueenPowerfulThingHousehold

Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote.

Jesse Jackson

PeopleMeWinEndLostVote

My winter uniform is jeans, boots, and an oversize blazer for good measure. It's my formula for getting dressed in under 10 minutes.

Jeanne Damas

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When I was 8, I was reading 'Gone with the Wind' and 'Pride and Prejudice' and all that, not knowing it wasn't my reading level.

Stephenie Meyer

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Learning what you don't want is how you know what you do want.

Robin Wright

LearningYouKnowWantHow

The British system denied any role for human creativity, and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires, pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain, objective laws would naturally guide society to achieve the best allocation of wealth.

Robert Trout

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The thing with all the Founding Fathers, one of the most common words they used was 'posterity.' They were constantly referring to posterity.

Ron Chernow

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In money, and in life, you are very often your own worst enemy. You promise yourself you're going to diet, then eat not one or two French fries but a whole plate. You decide to really commit to saving for retirement, only to wind up with a new pair of shoes in your closet.

Jean Chatzky

LifeShoesMoneyYourselfWindDiet

I am a consummate metaphor addict.

Jason Reynolds

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I cannot live a life where I'm deprived. I'd much rather be five, 10 pounds heavier. With my luck, I'll get myself to that perfect goal weight, and I'll get hit by a bus. Then I'll be like... looking at myself from some afterlife going, 'You idiot. You could have had that agnolotti, dummy.'

Drew Barrymore

LifeLiveMyselfLuckLookingIdiot

That's the beautiful thing about mixed martial arts - and I'll tell people that - you have to think outside of the box.

Demetrious Johnson

BeautifulPeopleThinkYouOutside

The next time I write a play - in order to get audience trust for a particular sort of tragic line, I'll try to bring the audience a good distance before that. Part of that is allowing comic moments to occur. I had been afraid of that - that once the audience started laughing in the play, they would never stop.

Colm Toibin

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