Roger Bannister Quotes

Beating John Landy was my defining race.

Roger Bannister

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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A lot of times, us within the industry, we can put this bubble around ourselves and create what a show is supposed to look like and sound like, and we're seeing so much content. The best compliment is, 'I finally found something to watch with my family,' or, 'This is how I really feel, and I can't believe they're showing this on television.'

Jerrod Carmichael

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The 'Survivor' community is very tight. I mean very tight.

Jenna Morasca

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What you don't do is contacting someone you haven't reached out for 10 years and asking for money.

John Quelch

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The expression 'livin' large' is taken from the rap vernacular, inspired by Donald Trump, who made the big dollars and flaunted them.

Michael Schultz

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With Vietnam, the Iraq War, so many American films about war are almost always from the American point of view. You almost never have a Middle Eastern character by name with a story.

Mira Nair

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I was running around and bouncing out of the pram as a baby.

Jason Statham

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Children, and sometimes those of larger growth, will not read dialect.

Joseph Jacobs

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It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.

Jon Krakauer

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There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Don Herold

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Only we were in The Cranberries. Only we know what it was like being in that crazy whirlwind of fame. We have children and spouses and lives, but there is only one Cranberries.

Dolores O'Riordan

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I don't think you need any kind of backing here in the industry. I think what you achieve in your life is the result of your own talent and hard work.

Deepika Padukone

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It is better to learn late than never.

Publilius Syrus

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