Stan Mikita Quotes

A friend of mine has a son who became deaf through meningitis. He called me one spring and asked me to keep a week out of my schedule because he wanted to start a school for deaf kids. I wanted to help.

Stan Mikita

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FriendSonSchoolSpringMeStart

I started really young, like 12 or 13, and then I started doing school plays. We had a really good drama department, so the kind of drama-geek stigma wasn't really there in my high school.

Matt Damon

GoodSchoolHigh SchoolDoingDrama

The song 'Bite the Thong' in particular, with Damon Albarn, really encapsulates the whole dilemma of, 'Hmm, should I stay on the underground when everybody else is selling out?' Nowadays, you can just do it - have your name-brand clothes, do songs with rock n' rollers - and it's not considered selling out.

MF Doom

SongClothesYouSellingRockOut

I think in the NFL knowledge is power, and you try to get the knowledge by whatever means.

Steve Sabol

KnowledgePowerThinkYouTryGet

I could just sit back and get someone to spin my achievements, I suppose, but when I see others do it, I always think, 'Why are you telling me how successful you are?' I am always suspicious of those kinds of boasts.

Simon Cowell

I AmMeThinkSomeoneYouBack

Governments cannot assume or expect that the ECB will always facilitate their funding independently of the achievement of their fiscal and other policy objectives.

Lucas Papademos

AchievementWillAlwaysPolicy

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

MindBodyLaborDifficultiesDoes

I love 'Gladiator' and '300.'

Jason Kidd

LoveGladiatorI Love

If you can find the line between sympathetic and creepy, you have reached a very funny area.

Jason Segel

FunnyYouFindLineBetweenReached

Recalling a memory is not like playing a tape recorder. It's a creative process.

Susumu Tonegawa

CreativeMemoryProcessPlayingLike

The Olympics are a world apart from racing for a record. You put out of your mind pretty much what anyone else doing in the race.

Sebastian Coe

MindWorldRacingDoingYouRace

It's hard not to be affected by the live audience.

Tyler Joseph

LiveHardAudienceAffected

Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives.

Thomas S. Monson

DailyFaithLivingAnchorConfusion

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