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Roger Bannister Quotes

My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did.

Roger Bannister

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: british
Birth: March 23, 1929

Topics

Acceptance School More Days Students

New Yorkers only cross water for visual culture if the water is an ocean. The East River throws us for a huge loop. If we started going to Queens and the Bronx for visual culture, many of our rent, space, and crowding problems would be over indefinitely.

Jerry Saltz

Water Culture Ocean Space River New

I adopted a healthier diet. I take at least a tablespoon of apple-cider vinegar a day. It's an old wives' tale, but it really is one of the best things you can put in your mouth.

Melissa Etheridge

Best Day Diet You Mouth Old

If somebody says, 'That's Elon's mum,' which happens quite a bit, they are usually stunned; sometimes they cry. I'm flattered because, I mean, to them, he's saving the world. They just feel he's the only hope.

Maye Musk

Hope World Feel Sometimes Cry Mean

When my mother was sick, I found myself needing to put down in my journals all sorts of things - to try to understand them, and, I think, to try to remember them.

Meghan O'Rourke

Mother Myself Sick Think Remember

The most lively fancy aided by the strongest description cannot equal the reality of the opera.

John Marshall

Reality Equal Opera Fancy Cannot

By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso.

Robert Quine

Punk Standards Playing Many Very

Art is activism.

Angie Thomas

Art Activism

The only people you can really share certain things with in secret are your girlfriends.

Shirley Knight

Women People You Secret Share Your

I wouldn't eat a hamburger for 40,000 dollars.

River Phoenix

Eat Hamburger Dollars

The power of sound to put an audience in a certain psychological state is vastly undervalued. And the more you know about music and harmony, the more you can do with that.

Mike Figgis

Music Power You Harmony Know Sound

I was raising a child full time, sharing the responsibility with his mom. He lived with me half the time, so I chose not to go away and make certain movies.

Michael Keaton

Time Responsibility Child Me Mom Go

Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.

Miles Franklin

Someone Human Tell Human Beings