Ray Dandridge Quotes

In the Negro Leagues, we'd play three games a day on the weekends. Then we'd ride the bus and travel to play the next day someplace else. You'd hang your shirt out the bus window to dry.

Ray Dandridge

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 31, 1913 - February 12, 1994

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The driving force behind 'In Our Time' is that I want an education. I want to know more about science, say, and if I want to know, then other people probably do, too.

Melvyn Bragg

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I think funny is just the foundation. I don't really think, to some extent, funny is the absolute most important thing. It should also communicate some idea through the medium of cartooning. Just to be funny is... You know what, the things that you laugh hardest at aren't cartoons.

Robert Mankoff

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Even the most dismal and hopeless-sounding Wilco music, to my ears, has always maintained a level of hope and consolation.

Jeff Tweedy

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I love to sit, to watch people; even in New York, I don't feel as free as in London.

Stephane Rolland

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People who know Mexico know me because I'm so much a part of Mexico.

Juan Gabriel

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The election, and even the re-election, of a black man as president, in a country that is 87 percent non-black - a first in human history - has had no impact on what are called 'racial tensions.'

Dennis Prager

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I don't change my style for anybody.

Chuck Liddell

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Before I ever start a job that I'm really excited about, I usually have some sleepless nights or weeks or months. But that anticipation for a person like me... I don't do so well with a lot of time off.

Lily Rabe

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People like Jefferson, Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony and M. L. K. are larger than life to me. I find myself staring at photographs of Lincoln almost in disbelief that he was a man who walked the earth and not merely some fiction writer's creation.

Henry Rollins

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God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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We are the reformers. Reform ends if we leave, not just for us but also our friends in Europe who want our voice heard in Europe.

David Cameron

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The chances of anyone of any race getting their own show are, like, .001 percent.

Cristela Alonzo

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