Bob Beamon Quotes

I'm Chief Executive Officer at Art of the Olympians Museum in Fort Myers, Florida, which was founded by my Mexico City teammate Al Oerter and his wife Cathy in 2005. It shows that Olympians can have another life; we have got art from more than 100 Olympians.

Bob Beamon

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LifeArtWifeCityMuseumFlorida

My particular lifetime, my individual profile, represents something very basic to African-American history and culture because I was a second generation immigrant, so to speak, from the South. My grandfather was born in South Carolina - well, both grandfathers were born in the South.

John Edgar Wideman

HistoryCultureSpeakGeneration

This rise of the new global mega-rich is happening as established institutions are falling. The fall runs the gamut from the music business and traditional media to the Detroit automakers who find themselves obsolete, outmaneuvered, and out-priced by entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, Mumbai, Shanghai, and even Siberia.

Robert Kiyosaki

BusinessMusicMediaFallFindRise

I had been designing for Alessi and Swid Powell and Steuben and high-end people, and people always complained, 'Michael, we'd love to buy your stuff, but it's too expensive.'

Michael Graves

LovePeopleAlwaysExpensiveBuy

My characters always like themselves.

Amy Sedaris

AlwaysLikeThemselvesCharacters

But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.

John Perry Barlow

LoveHopeLove IsWorthKindOnly

I consider myself a freedom fighter, fighting for my clients.

Roger Ailes

FreedomMyselfFightingFighter

If someone has an ability to impress an audience there's a tendency to be tempted into doing just that.

Michael Sheen

SomeoneDoingImpressAbilityJust

I was brought up in Guildford, and I think I used to absorb all the suburban things - seeing coffee mornings, women talking... that stuff, really. I was watching Alan Ayckbourn on some documentary, and he was talking about how he was around a lot of women as a child, listening to all that stuff.

Julia Davis

WomenCoffeeChildListeningThink

I'm just worried about what I'm doing. Case has played well, and Case is doing a great job. But at the same time, I'm not going to concern myself with him.

Jared Goff

GreatTimeMyselfJobDoingHim

A few years ago, I bought an old red bicycle with the words Free Spirit written across its side - which is exactly what I felt like when I rode it down the street in a tie-dyed dress.

Drew Barrymore

WordsRedDressFreeBicycleDown

Social media is great, I guess, but it feels like technology is the sapper of innocence.

Chris O'Dowd

TechnologyGreatSocial MediaMedia

Rock's so good to me. Rock is my child and my grandfather.

Chuck Berry

GoodChildMeGrandfatherRock

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