John Skipper Quotes

With the polarization of points of view around significant political and social issues, sports is a place where people can sort of talk about something together. And I think that is important to people.

John Skipper

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SportsTogetherPeopleThinkView

The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.

John Lothrop Motley

WeakScaredServitudeManyTimid

My friends, history, history calls us to this time and to this place. A solemn choice rests with us - where do we go from here? Do we move slowly and incrementally? Or do we seize the challenge of our time and tackle the great issues of our day.

Tom Vilsack

HistoryGreatTimeChallengeDayGo

The Baja is a survival race, and there is no break, but you're not up on the wheel all day in the Baja like you are in Winston Cup or at Indy.

Robby Gordon

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It is so inspirational, to see that in the world of Westeros, men are answering to women, and they are a force to be reckoned with. It's empowering, and it's inspirational as well, because you're just like, 'This is great!'

Rose Leslie

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I've never had a plan. You look for different actors you want to work with or different subjects you want to explore, or sometimes it's just a momentary fancy.

Michelle Forbes

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Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.

Doris Day

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I remember hearing songs from the Mother Love Bone album, and hearing Alice in Chains, and feeling like this is more than just a fad or moment.

Chris Cornell

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In many immigrant families, the parents are just talking and talking about the home country until the children are like, 'Oh, don't tell us any more.'

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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There are so many young women who tip over into being a facsimile: they don't really inhabit their lives or their bodies.

Susie Orbach

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Thomas Mann

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I've been lucky-my looks haven't put me into one category. I don't look like a blue blood. I don't look like a criminal. I don't look like anything.

Tim Robbins

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'I Am Legend' is quite unusual for its time. I just wanted to write a story about female boxers, and I couldn't get that going in my mind. I don't know exactly where the idea of just a man pitting himself against a robot boxer came from.

Richard Matheson

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