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Charlie Sifford Quotes

Every time I go into a tournament, I'm strictly on my own. I know I'm playing for my bread and butter.

Charlie Sifford

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: June 2, 1922 - February 3, 2015

Topics

Time Go Bread Know My Own Own

You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

Positive You Try Everything Seen Us

If I'm painting, I paint every day. I'll be up in the studio from 8:00 in the morning to 8:00 at night.

John Mellencamp

Morning Day Painting Night Every Day

An actor finds things in the moment with a director and other actors that you don't have time to hand-draw or animate with a computer.

Time Moment You Actor Director

I'm sure I'll be doing something of social or political worth the rest of my life.

Life Rest Political My Life Doing

What's important is that people realize that I can't be put into a box musically. I've studied all forms of music; I know probably more Jay-Z songs than the biggest Jay-Z fan. I've studied R. Kelly to the Isley Brothers to Stevie Wonder to Sting and Sade. You don't have one personality every day. You don't have one mood.

Music Day Personality People You

I nearly drowned in the Xingu River in Brazil some years ago. When I was given my life back, I decided I wanted to make some changes, so I left acting to concentrate on producing films. I wanted to be in control of my own life.

Life River Control My Life Acting

Then I tried out for the Fontana High School drum line, in Riverside, and I did really well. I got second chair, and played snare in that drum line for three years.

School High School Chair Three High

There are a lot of good ideas that could benefit from big media. You have a lot of companies that hit a wall and can't get beyond a certain level. They need the infrastructure and distribution of a large company.

Good Ideas Media You Wall Beyond

How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence.

I Am Society Survive Questions Media

There are two reasons to pursue diversity and inclusion. One, because you believe one group has benefitted from hundreds of years of discrimination, or two, maybe you don't like that women make 73 cents on the dollar compared to men.

Women Men Diversity Believe You

'Top Boy,' for some people, was very controversial because it seemed to be portraying black people in a certain light that they thought to be stereotypical. However, what I would say is that the writer went and lived in Hackney in East London for a long time and did his research really well.

Clare-Hope Ashitey

Time Light People Research Thought

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Age Children Golden Where Golden Age

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