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Tori Bowie Quotes

My mother dropped us off at a foster care centre when I was just two. But my grandmother ended up fighting for us and winning custody of us. We didn't have much, but she gave us character.

Tori Bowie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: August 27, 1990

Topics

Mother Character Winning Fighting Up

Baseball is a hard game. There's going to be ups and downs.

Andrew Benintendi

Baseball Game Ups And Downs Hard Ups

I like going after work back to Brooklyn because it is so much more relaxed and chill.

Anna Ewers

Work Chill Back Brooklyn More Going

At Camfed, we have focused on transforming the vicious cycle of poverty in many rural African communities into a cycle of opportunity. Alumnae of Camfed's programs go on to become role models and mentors for future generations of young students. We call this the 'virtuous circle,' and we know this is a model that works.

Ann Cotton

Future Opportunity Poverty Circle Go

I'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.

Jeff Bridges

Done Movies Going Maybe About

Like most girls, I suffered from pimples, too. I tried dozens of treatments but was never satisfied with any.

Amy Jackson

Never Satisfied Like Most Tried Any

The psychiatric ward was a really creepy place and, hindsight being 20/20, the creepiest thing about it was that I truly belonged there.

Steve-O

Place Hindsight Being About Really

And here a most heinous charge is made, that the nation has been burdened with unnecessary expenses for the sole purpose of preventing the discharge of our debts and the abolition of taxes.

Robert Walpole

Purpose Nation Taxes Expenses Here

I think educational systems have to be more nimble, have to be more adapted to today's realities where students can go in different directions and professionalize even faster. Constant retraining and reskilling and upskilling, whatever you want to call it, of the workforce.

Roberto Azevedo

Today Think You Go Want More

There is technique to it-he is just standing there flexing his arm, and I am standing there making faces as if I am being choked. You keep your head in a certain angle for the camera.

Ron Livingston

I Am Camera You Head Standing Faces

I certainly know about the oppression and prejudices of being black and a woman and from the South.

Clarice Taylor

Woman Black Know Oppression Being

I'm in politics to change things - if possible, for the better. I was a journalist for a long time, but I had a kind of midlife crisis, and I decided I needed to do something to get on the pitch and stop endlessly kicking over other peoples' sandcastles.

Boris Johnson

Change Time Politics Better Long

Then I came up with this crazy idea just to walk out on the stage with no band at all and just start singing whatever came to mind. I actually fought the idea for a while because it seemed almost too radical, but it became obvious what I was supposed to be doing.

Bobby McFerrin

Walk Mind Crazy Singing Start Doing