Donovan Bailey Quotes

Our people historically have gone through a lot. That is our story. You can trace it all the way back to slavery. But it is incumbent upon everyone, no matter what field, to make it easier on the next generation.

Donovan Bailey

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: jamaican
  • Birth: December 16, 1967

Topics

PeopleSlaveryStoryGenerationYou

When I arrived in New York, I was homeless with 400 bucks in my pocket.

Jerome Jarre

New YorkHomelessNewPocketArrived

Forget worrying about the break-up of celebrities you don't even know. I have long since given up trying to figure out why even my closest friends split up.

John Niven

FriendsTryingLongYouKnowForget

I think every role you get is going to be a powerful one. As long as you go in with the mindset of, 'Yeah, I'm going to make the most of this.' So that's the kind of attitude I take into each role that I play.

Anna Hutchison

AttitudeThinkMindsetYouPowerful

An industrious sinner I much prefer to a lazy saint.

Sophie Kerr

LazySinnerSaintIndustriousMuch

Johnny Knoxville went from struggling to pay his rent to being on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' in the course of, like, a month.

Spike Jonze

StoneRentPayMonthBeingRolling

False Claims Act violators who self-report generally receive the same penalties and face the same damages as those who are caught. I think this makes very little sense.

Trent Franks

FaceThinkSameLittleFalseAct

I think about where I grew up and how I grew up: my dad was making $25,000 a year. Taking a chance wasn't really taking a chance. It was like you were going for something better. To me, there wasn't that much risk involved.

Michael Pena

MeChanceThinkBetterYearYou

But we're very much an American band and that's that. I think that's part of the appeal outside of this country and it might be part of the reason people turned away from us within this country, because familiarity breeds contempt.

Michael Stipe

PeopleThinkAmericanCountryReason

I liked the idea of exposing the beams in collaborative novel. And there are many - especially in the crime world - there are many people working together: James Patterson and his stable of sub authors; and then there are like Ken Bruen and Reed Farrel Coleman and Jason Starr.

Lisa Lutz

Working TogetherTogetherPeopleIdea

Most of the musical film work that I have done has been in this realm of what I think of as real family entertainment.

Jason Alexander

WorkFamilyThinkDoneEntertainment

I don't watch much TV at all.

Jason Derulo

WatchMuchTV

I want pills called September 10. You take one and your mind feels like the 11th never happened.

Douglas Coupland

MindYouWantNeverTakeSeptember

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