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Simone Manuel Quotes

I want to be an inspiration, but I would like there to be a day when it is not 'Simone the black swimmer.'

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: August 2, 1996

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Day Black Want Inspiration Would

I wasn't interested in holding onto the evidence of things.

Evidence Things Interested Holding

You've gotta understand - when you interview someone, it's not an interrogation. It's not the Nuremberg Trials.

Someone You Understand Trials Gotta

Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that being called this thing, with the weight of tradition behind it, and with the association of the Royal family, does allow you to have conversations and to open doors, and wallets, for the good of poetry in a way that nothing else would allow.

Family Good Poetry Doors You Royal

You often hear when you talk to guys in our industry, that this is my personality, I just turn the volume up, but over the years, I've really become me. No volume turned up, no nothing. I've been able to go out there and just be myself. It's through solid performance after solid performance that people just take you for who you are.

Myself Personality People Me You Go

The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches - with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose to the grindstone - was once at the core of the American Dream.

Work Hard Work Faith American Dream

The nice thing about 'Futurama' for me personally was that it was a way to honor some of the traditional ideas in literary science fiction, not so much movie or television science fiction - although we have that too, obviously. Our situation, a workplace comedy, led to all sorts of stuff.

Science Me Ideas Honor Comedy Nice

It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.

John Phillips Marquand

Him Honest Behind Worthwhile Few

'The Chronicles of Narnia' are war-determined stories. I do not think Lewis could have written well or truthfully if he had tried to avoid the reality of war.

Stanley Hauerwas

War Think Reality Well Avoid Tried

A country like America has twice as much food on its shop shelves and in its restaurants than is actually required to feed the American people.

Tristram Stuart

Food People American America Country

I was asked by a group to write a song on the theme of brotherhood. This was before women's liberation, when brotherhood meant men and women both, so I wrote the song. Since I had always been very fond of the Passion Chorale, I wrote words to that great piece.

Women Passion Great Men Words Song

If we want better results, we have to make better choices.

Martin O'Malley

Choices Better Results Want Make

I believe that if you want to fight inequality you have to do it starting at infancy.

Michelle Bachelet

Fight Believe You Inequality Want

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