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Josh Gordon Quotes

I was just raised in humble beginnings: three brothers together and a single mother who raised us the best she could.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: April 13, 1991

Topics

Mother Humble Best Together Three

Everything starts with writing. I heard Nikki Giovanni and was blown away. I just thought 'wow'; she was writing from a black girl's perspective, and the imagery was so vivid that I started doing spoken word.

Girl Perspective Writing Thought She

Sometimes you can be one of the best, but you don't accept that if you don't get the ring or win the Super Bowl. There's a lot of good teams between the Super Bowl winner and other teams. Once the Super Bowl is over, we lump everyone into the other 31, and that's not fair.

Good Best Win Winner You Sometimes

It was a privilege to serve as the assistant attorney general for civil rights, a role that allowed me to enforce the Civil Rights Act and help make its promise a reality.

Me Reality Help Privilege Rights

From my perspective, we as a nation need to make policy a priority and drive the politics as a result of good policy.

Good Perspective Politics Drive Need

Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Dance Now Way More Renaissance

America provided things that form the foundation of who we used to be: the prospect and potential of hope, mercy, and freedom for strangers who came carrying not much more than a determination to survive in a big country with a bigger heart.

Determination Hope Heart Freedom

The value that some analysts put on revenue vs. what they put on profit is out of whack. If you can grow real cash earnings, that's 80% of what you ought to do, and the revenue component is 20%.

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

Value Grow You Profit Real Out

And I think I'm an adrenaline junkie, and there's nothing that will spike your adrenaline more than sitting in a theater and listen to an audience react to something you've written.

Think You Sitting Nothing React

When I came there I found all my family gone, for the Indians had killed five people in the winter near that place, which frightened my wife and family away to Roanoke about 35 miles nearer in among the inhabitants, which I was informed of by an old man I met near the place.

Christopher Gist

Family Winter Wife Man People Place

I cast my first vote on my father's lap in 1960, for Richard Nixon, in the voting booth. I was 8.

Christopher Buckley

Father Voting Vote First Cast Booth

I'm actually a little bit more tolerant than I thought I was. I've got kids, so I do have a lot of faces.

Thought More Little Got Faces Kids

When I wanted to audition for a dinner-theater junior troupe in my hometown, I needed to have a piece of musical theater music to sing. I wasn't sure what I wanted to use. My mom and dad suggested that I sing 'Edelweiss' because I knew it from the music box.

Music Mom Hometown Box Sure Sing

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