Charlie Sifford Quotes

I believe there's - now, don't get me wrong; I'm not prejudiced - there's some white people in this country who'll never accept the black man as a golfer. That's true.

Charlie Sifford

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I do what I do because I like doing it. I'm well paid for it. I get far too much adulation compared with what it's worth.

Jeremy Irons

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Back in early 1983, my dad was tasked with keeping unions from organizing in his company's distribution centers. His work pulled him away from home for months on end.

Jen Lancaster

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I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.

Maurice Jarre

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I think there are a lot of Republicans who recognize that investment in adolescent girls and empowering them is good for our foreign policy. When they're educated, they tend to give back more to their communities, to rise out of poverty in a way that is good for their families and their communities and, ultimately, their countries.

Jeanne Shaheen

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We represent the people's money, and we have to be good stewards of that.

Stephen Fincher

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I'm not one to intellectualize why I did something.

Spike Jonze

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There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.

Toni Morrison

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I think that 'Halo' is a hard property because they don't need to make a film. They make far more money out of the games so why risk?

Rupert Sanders

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I believe the Palestinians have never indicated a willingness to meet our minimum requirements, which are recognition of Israel's permanence and legitimacy as a Jewish state and end of claims and end of conflict.

Michael Oren

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To stabilize the nation's public-employee pension systems and to prevent federal taxpayers from being billed for failed pension funds, I have introduced the Public Employee Pension Transparency Act in Congress.

Devin Nunes

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The idea of sacrifice is integral to the John Henry myth. Heroic figures have to die in order for us to have our stories; we live and stand on their bones.

Colson Whitehead

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Every now and then you'll nail one that's really, really special. And that's what you live for.

Bob Seger

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