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Mary Pilon Quotes

For years, women in India were largely discouraged from participating in high-level sports - and, unless the women were wealthy, good facilities were hard to come by, anyway.

Mary Pilon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: May 16, 1986

Topics

Good Women Sports India Hard Years

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

People Environment Result New Accept

I really enjoy being able to spend my time doing different charitable and philanthropic activities.

Jennie Garth

Time Doing Enjoy Activities Being

I would love to be the African leader that steps down, that overthrows this idea of a Big Man ruler. I don't want to stay in office forever.

Meles Zenawi

Love Leader Man Down Want Office

I can't imagine anywhere I'd rather be than outside the space shuttle in my space suit next to the Hubble Space Telescope.

John M. Grunsfeld

Space Outside Next Imagine Suit

We've taken on health care in a big way in our office, ever since nine years ago when I was paralyzed. I was in eight different hospitals, three different rehab centers, and all the rooms were dreadful. As an architect, designer, and patient, I can do something to help.

Michael Graves

Health Care Help I Can Three Way

Any piece of music or album or anything - I don't care what genre - in the States, a piece of it came through Atlanta somehow.

Metro Boomin

Music Care Atlanta Through Anything

Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never - pleasurable.

Michael Morpurgo

Failure Never Cleansing Admitting

I didn't spend much time with my parents when I was growing up.

Michael Reagan

Time Parents Growing Up Growing Up

Real cowboys wear Wranglers. End of story. Levi's may be chic and trendy, but if you work cattle for a living, you wear Wranglers.

Lori Wilde

Work Story End You Living Real

I try not to take any liberties when it comes to being factual. Sometimes you have to, just to make the song sound good. But I feel like, personally, if you've lived it, then you shouldn't stretch the truth. It should be that experience.

Brett Young

Good Truth Experience Song Feel You

After I got my law degree and business degree, I went to work for my family, and I spent two years at Hyatt doing a training program. I was really interested in real estate - one reason was that nobody in my family was doing that. I was looking for a place where I could be successful doing something that was my own.

Penny Pritzker

Work Family Business Training Law

I'm impressed by the economic development of Korea. And women scientists played, without doubt, an important role in it.

Tim Hunt

Women Doubt Important Development