Tori Bowie Quotes

My grandmother has always been my biggest fan, and she was my whole life. The only thing that kept me living after her death is my commitment to training. I took my pain out on the track.

Tori Bowie

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LifeCommitmentDeathPainTraining

If you just want to be a star, go away.

Jenifer Lewis

YouGoWantStarJustGo Away

My father was a veteran. He fought in World War II. He was a patriot. On the other hand, he had no illusions whatsoever about how Uncle Sam had mistreated him and other black soldiers.

John Edgar Wideman

FatherWarWorldBlackUncleHand

I was born at home in rural Kentucky, in 1942, in a house that my father Howard had built. He did most of the construction himself and built it on land that his father had given him when he married my mother Faye.

Robert H. Grubbs

FatherMotherHomeConstructionBorn

Children are so creative and imaginative that they just bring you to life all over again.

Moira Kelly

LifeChildrenCreativeYouOver

Writing humour certainly involves pain. A sitcom is 6 months of writing pain!

Miranda Hart

PainWritingHumourSitcomMonths

I played a killer twice. Once on 'Matlock,' on Andy Griffith's show, I got to play the killer.

Dick Van Dyke

PlayTwiceGotShowKillerOnce

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.

Chuck Palahniuk

LifeMistakeTryingYouBirthWhole

I pull a lot of the stuff that I play off the rhythm tracks - and Keith Richards has been one of the main contributors to my inspirational playing.

Bobby Keys

InspirationalPlayRhythmPlaying

Don't ever think, no matter how old you are, that you don't need to be coached.

Peyton Manning

ThinkYouMatterOldNeedHow

A siege is an act of war.

Noam Chomsky

WarActSiege

It isn't just sports people that need someone to look up to - everyone needs that: LGBT people, the general public. To be honest, it's nice to feel that I can inspire so many people in so many areas of public life.

Nicola Adams

LifeSportsPeopleInspireSomeone

What if Hillary Clinton were a man? What if she were a 68-year-old man rather than a 68-year-old woman? Would we think differently of her?

Richard Cohen

WomanManThinkWhat IfSheHer

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