Cathy Engelbert Quotes

I was a Division I college athlete, and I grew up with five brothers and two sisters. I've always been a competitor.

Cathy Engelbert

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With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.

Jimmy Connors

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The reason there's not a dictatorship in Chile and that there's a democracy in South Africa and Portugal today - and that Haiti has a nascent democracy - is that the world community as a whole felt outraged. This is the reason Milosevic sits in a jail in The Hague. It's because the world has said, 'Enough.'

Joe Garcia

TodayCommunityDemocracyWorldSaid

I don't think about time. You're here when you're here. I think about today, staying in tune.

John Lee Hooker

TodayTimeThinkYouHereStaying

It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.

Jean Rostand

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Long ago, I realized that my only talent - aside from the rugged good looks, of course, and the strange power I hold over elderly women - can be reduced to a single word: doggedness.

Michael Dirda

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It seems like we wake up and it's a race until you get to bed. It gets to you after a while and you think, 'What the hell am I doing?'

Steven Wright

Wake UpThinkHellDoingYouRace

The atmospheric CO2 concentration is rising - mainly due to the burning of fossil fuels. It's agreed that this build-up will, in itself, induce a long-term warming trend, superimposed on all the other complicated effects that make climate fluctuate.

Martin Rees

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Louis C.K. directs his show, which is very much like a series of short films.

Mike Birbiglia

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Religious freedom opens a door for Americans that is closed to too many others around the world. But whether we walk through that door, and what we do with our lives after we do, is up to us.

Mitt Romney

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Some of my biggest commercial musical influences would be people like Merle Haggard, George Jones, of course, Johnny Cash. People that wrote and sang their own stuff, I really admired.

Jay DeMarcus

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I was just raised in humble beginnings: three brothers together and a single mother who raised us the best she could.

Josh Gordon

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So many self-help ideas are like meringue - you take a big bite, and there's nothing there.

Deborah Norville

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