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Ralph Boston Quotes

So you had to rev your engines, to beat the Russians and I think more than anything, if the Soviet team would win, or the Soviet athletes would win, you would see and hear and read about that. Quite frequently. So they would make a big issue of it.

Ralph Boston

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: May 9, 1939

Topics

Team Win Think You More See

It's competition that forces companies to get out of their complacency.

John Mackey

Competition Complacency Out Get

If you take away money, if you take away the houses and things, who are we really? What is love really about? What is it to love each other? Why do we stay together, and why do all the kids split? All these questions I have really deep inside of me.

Sonia Braga

Love Money Together Me Deep You

I strongly disapprove of torture and have never and would never provide assistance in its process.

Martin Seligman

Process Never Torture Would Provide

Prime ministers come and go, but so long as he or she lives, the sovereign remains, receiving and reading all state papers and meeting once a week with the prime minister to advise, enquire, and comment - sometimes sharply, as was the case with Queen Elizabeth II and Mrs. Thatcher - on affairs of state.

Michael Korda

Queen Reading Week Long Meeting Go

The career of an esthete was nothing I ever intended.

Joseph Brodsky

Career Nothing Ever Intended

The House of Lords says I'm not a member of it. My passport says I am - get used to it.

Christopher Monckton

I Am House Passport Used Get Member

While tourism is often resource-intensive, it is a major driver of poverty reduction in developing countries.

Arancha Gonzalez

Poverty Tourism Driver Often Major

After May 1940, the good times were few and far between; first there was the war, then the capitulation, and then the arrival of the Germans, which is when the trouble started for the Jews.

Anne Frank

Good War Good Times Trouble First

Consider a 15- or 20-year fixed-rate mortgage instead of a 30-year, if you can afford the monthly payments - they may not be as high as you think.

Suze Orman

Think You Mortgage High May Afford

It was only when I began modeling at 18 that I really began enjoying fashion and reading any fashion magazine I could get my hands on, and developing a profound respect for designers, fashion and how to wear it.

Poppy Delevingne

Respect Fashion Reading Hands Wear

We are all so busy and so frantic that we don't take the time to appreciate the stuff that surrounds us.

Nick Veasey

Time Busy Appreciate Take Us Stuff

You have to give people the opportunity to prove themselves.

Richard Masur

Opportunity People You Prove Give