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Curt Flood Quotes

Remember when I told you about the American dream? That if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough and kicked yourself in the butt, you'd succeed? Well, I think I did, I think I did.

Curt Flood

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: January 18, 1938 - January 20, 1997

Topics

Yourself American Dream Succeed Think

I would encounter W. E. B. Du Bois and the term double consciousness. When I read it, I thought about sitting in my mother's employer's family room, watching my mother clean while I waited for her to finish so we could go home.

Jesmyn Ward

Family Mother Home Thought Sitting

I have to say that it's very few countries that are willing to look back at its past and apologize for its act, or make amends for its act, as the United States had one.

Robert Matsui

Past Look Back Say Apologize Act

We at ESPN like competition. It makes us better. It makes us sharper.

John Skipper

Competition Better Us Like ESPN

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

Spiro T. Agnew

Politics People American Choose Over

We are getting an education of a lifetime. We're actually out there in the real world.

Solange Knowles

Education World Real Out Lifetime

No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.

Robert Burton

Rule General Some Exception Which

If you grew up white before the civil rights movement anywhere in the South, all grown-ups lied. They'd tell you stuff like, 'Don't drink out of the colored fountain, dear, it's dirty.' In the white part of town, the white fountain was always covered with chewing gum and the marks of grubby kids' paws, and the colored fountain was always clean.

Molly Ivins

You White Dirty Clean Movement Out

My door was open part of the time, and part of the time I tried to get a nap and their voices annoyed me, and I closed it. I kept it open in summer more or less, and closed in winter.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

Winter Time Me Door Summer Nap

The Internet is a contest between people with the same name to be the person who dominates that online space.

Joshua Cohen

Space People Name Internet Person

I see the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with respect.

Joni Mitchell

Respect Time World You See I See

It's pretty cool that artists like Flo Rida and Bingo Players can be inspired to interpret a song like 'Piano in the Dark' in completely new genres. As an artist and writer, it's the highest compliment we can be paid.

Brenda Russell

Cool Song Artist Dark New Piano

Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they've always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university first.

Archie Panjabi

Parents Ambition First University