Wilma Rudolph Quotes

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

Wilma Rudolph

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 23, 1940 - November 12, 1994

Topics

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I tend to go toward things that make me afraid.

Joe Mantello

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I admire sensible, kind people. They're not often famous.

John Malkovich

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When in some communities selling drugs is so lucrative that that's a pretty big enticement that we have to break down. Part of that is by making opportunities and paying decent wages.

Matt Gonzalez

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I drive my family nuts because when I watch something on TV, I'm likely to watch it with a bass guitar. But I don't plug it in!

Steve Capus

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There is something attractive about taking risks.

Sonny Mehta

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The secret is not to act, but to be.

Steven Seagal

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Although I played a lot of computer games in my 20s, now I have children of my own, I hate them with a passion.

Tom Hodgkinson

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We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.

Robert E. Lee

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I made this record in the late '80s called 'Diamonds and Dirt,' and it was a big hit. It had five No. 1's, and it was my commercial peak, really.

Rodney Crowell

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There's a lot of glorification of startups and being a founder. People brush the failures under the rug, but that's the worst thing you can do. You kind of have to face it head on.

Christopher Poole

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Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

Clarence Day

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We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

Thomas Jefferson

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