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Althea Gibson Quotes

In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Sports You More Accepted Rather

Motherhood made me a better person.

Jessie James Decker

Me Motherhood Better Person Better

Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that's it. You're going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that's deep, deep, deep in there. Every step of the way.

Life Opportunity Courage Step Deep

I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half.

Money Advertising Find I Can Know

I went to a general store. They wouldn't let me buy anything specifically.

Me Buy Anything General Store

I had the greatest time of my life in England for a couple of years, and Robert Farnon made some of the best music I've ever been around.

Life Music Time Best My Life Years

If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Michel de Montaigne

Myself Man Me Loved Feel Him

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Sunshine Walk Shadow Friends Leaving

The first music I ever got into was the '80s alternative bands that my brother listened to, like The Cure and The Smiths and R.E.M. and Fugazi. I can remember specifically saying The Cure was my favorite band back in second grade.

Music Brother Saying Remember Back

Everybody kind of always bags on me because I use the word 'awesome' a lot.

Me Kind Always Awesome Because Word

I've never worked to make money. I understand we've got to eat and all that, but I never said I want to be a multimillionaire or a billionaire. To me, that's of no significance. I work to have the accomplishment.

Work Money Me Accomplishment Said

Believe it or not, we will actually be better and happier workers if we are allowed to be better parents. We might even rediscover our capacity for fun.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

Fun Parents Believe Better Will Our

The greatly increased consumption of alcoholic beverages is very largely a direct result of the increased purchasing power created by wartime expenditures.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Power Result Purchasing Direct Very

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