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Sargent Shriver Quotes

Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight.

Sargent Shriver

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: November 9, 1915 - January 18, 2011

Topics

Change Peace Change The World World

Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries.

Knowledge Light Beyond Boundaries

Obviously, I'm very happy when one of my films becomes a blockbuster. However, after a point, I want to switch off. I have learnt to just move on. Too much pressure can make you wrong.

Happy Pressure You Wrong Too Much

I like running. I am lucky for that; I don't find it hard. I like it as much as relaxing, actually. I am very focused on driving, and I don't like to party too much; that's just who I am.

Romain Grosjean

I Am Driving Find Party Too Much

I like inventing things when I write rather than autobiography.

Romesh Gunesekera

Write Things Autobiography Rather

There I am, chain-smoking and watching YouTube videos in my bedroom at 6 A.M. when a spoken-word video comes on the screen. I knew I had to do it: that it was another part of me that needed to be explored.

I Am Me YouTube Bedroom Watching

The reason that I'm so fast at what I do is - I'm not saying that I'm getting stories that nobody else has - the difference is that if a tip goes out to five people, and I know that it's a reliable source, I just tweet it out. If you're at a respectable news organization, that would be considered irresponsible.

People Organization Saying You Fast

No, I've never played baseball in my life.

Life Baseball My Life Never Played

You're always trying to do something that, on one hand, honors all those stories, that is still in some way the same character that Stan Lee and Jack Kirby were doing back in the sixties. But, at the same time, you want to be able to tell new stories and not just rehash what's come before.

Character Time Doing Trying You New

I just typed up three, four paragraphs of an idea and dropped it in a box at the Chicago Comic Con in the summer of 2000, I guess, or 2001 - I forget. I just dropped it on a stack of a giant pile of dozens of other entries. Months later, I was thrilled to get a call from a Marvel editor while I was working my crappy day-job.

Summer Forget Chicago Three Box Con

You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.

Integrity Man Care Morals You Duty

My agents and my managers are very good at whittling things down to the things they think I would be good at and that I'd respond well to, and that includes theater, TV and film. Whatever it is, if the material is right for me, then I'll go for it.

Dominic Sherwood

Good Me Think Down Go Go For It

I am not a sports girl.

Girl Sports I Am Am

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