Althea Gibson Quotes

Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown Wilmington, North Carolina.

Althea Gibson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 25, 1927 - September 28, 2003

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Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories.

Robert Smithson

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Art reflects society. Cinema doesn't dictate - you portray what the society demands.

Sonam Kapoor

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I would not want to live in a country that would have me as a leader in any sort of political bent.

Tom Hanks

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That's one great thing about my profession, traveling to locations.

Dean Stockwell

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It's great to get out of the study and work with real living and breathing people.

Christopher Hampton

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I'd never take a job where I had to do something that I didn't want to do.

Clay Aiken

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You can't call it an adventure unless it's tinged with danger. The greatest danger in life, though, is not taking the adventure at all. To have the objective of a life of ease is death. I think we've all got to go after our own Everest.

Brian Blessed

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I feel that's a good thing as an actor that you do not feel satisfied. Whenever I go back and watch myself on screen, I find multiple reasons to redo that scene. That's an occupational hazard that most actors face. You can never come to terms with it.

Anushka Sharma

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If I could live a parallel life, I would be a sitcom star; being in front of a live audience would be great.

Scott Wolf

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'Goon' is very much an action - it's got a lot of heart, it's got a lot of comedy, it's got a lot of similarities to what I think was successful in 'Deadpool,' and so I think it's not a stretch to compare those two things and say the world is a little more ready than they used to be for this kind of material.

Tim Miller

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People ask me if I'm the father of the Tea Party movement... I was the spark... that started it.

Rick Santelli

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My life was always different growing up. I mean, even before the show, my dad was who he is. He's an Olympic athlete. And we were going to premieres, like 'Finding Nemo' premieres, and we would be little kids, like, before the show, walking down the red carpet.

Kendall Jenner

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