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Althea Gibson Quotes

I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life with all the conveniences to make it so.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Live Want Normal Successful

We've always had a love for other places outside the US. I would be right with him. Now that Michael's been vindicated, we all have to be careful... you never know what someone's plotting and planning.

Jermaine Jackson

Love Planning Someone You Know Now

People like Superman, The Flash - they just feel limited in who they are and what you can do with them because everyone knows who they are and what they do. Someone like Animal Man feels very open to interpretation.

Man Animal People Feel Someone You

We believe the size is almost irrelevant to investment success. Our size has certainly not diminished our enthusiasm for investing in our funds, our ability to find or create opportunities, or our performance outlook.

Success Performance Believe Create

Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination.

Imagination World You Back Place

Goldman Sachs isn't the firm it once was when I worked for it, but it's still one of the building blocks of our capitalist society.

Building Society Building Blocks Firm

It's been a roller-coaster ride. But I haven't been diving this well for a while.

Ride Well Been Roller-Coaster While

My mother is who she is. I've become who I am. At some point I realized those two just didn't go together.

Mother Together I Am Go Become She

One side of the American psyche wants smaller government, lower taxes, and more choices for individuals, even if those choices increase risk. The other wants a strong social safety net to protect the weakest among us, even if it costs more to minimize risk.

Government Safety Choices Strong

As an athlete, I was never really comfortable with being a celebrity.

Michael Johnson

Athlete Comfortable Celebrity Never

When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to... I finally feel like myself.

Myself Feel Go Want Way Performing

I used to say, 'Are you kidding?' about some prices for collectibles. I don't anymore because anything that screams its era is collectible.

You Say Anything Used Because Era

When I was 12, I wanted to learn how to play the guitar, and I found a chord book in a shop, and I stuffed it down my trousers. And that's how I learned to play the guitar.

Book Guitar Learn Down Play Found

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