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Bob Beamon Quotes

My participation in the Art of the Olympians is a natural extension of my athletic career. I find creating a piece of art in many respects mirrors my long jumping efforts illustrating that hard work and inspiration will always be the foundation for success.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: August 29, 1946

Topics

Work Hard Work Success Art Career

My personal style is kind of tomboy-boho chic! Sort of funky but simple.

Style Simple Kind Personal Funky

As soon as a redwood is cut down or burned, it sends up a crowd of eager, hopeful shoots, which, if allowed to grow, would in a few decades attain a height of a hundred feet, and the strongest of them would finally become giants as great as the original tree.

Great Tree Feet Grow Down Become

It's cool to be named a Shooting Star and, of course, a big honor. But as to what comes of that, I'm just going to see what comes my way.

Cool Honor Way See Shooting Big

It's a hard thing to be an artist and not give up.

Artist Hard Up Give Hard Thing

In the 1970s when I started in the art world, no self-respecting artist would have stood in line to try to get on a television show. It never would have happened.

Art World Artist Television Never

Does anyone remember who shot Kubrick's movies? Do you remember who shot David Lean's movies? No one remembers who shot 'Dr. Strangelove' or 'Barry Lyndon.'

Remember You Movies Who Lean Shot

I learned to write crime novels by reading people I hoped to emulate: people like James Lee Burke, Lawrence Block, Joseph Wambaugh, and Sue Grafton.

Michael Connelly

People Reading Crime Write Like Sue

The disaster at the Bay of Pigs intensified Kennedy's doubts about listening to advisers from the CIA, the Pentagon, or the State Department who had misled him or allowed him to accept lousy advice.

Listening Advice Accept Him Pigs

As Muslim women, we're not waiting for the president of the United States to open doors for us or to fight our fights.

Women Fight Waiting Doors Open Doors

In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.

Christopher Lasch

God Culture World Society Gift

I am certain that there are extremists on both sides of the gun control debate in Hawaii, as in the rest of the nation. However, it has been our willingness and ability to develop mutually respectful and effective gun control laws that have kept our community safe.

Colleen Hanabusa

Community I Am Control Rest Gun

I've been in a lot of pressure situations; I know what I can do.

Bradley Wiggins

Pressure I Can Know Been Situations

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