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Jackie Robinson Quotes

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

Jackie Robinson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: January 31, 1919 - October 24, 1972

Topics

Respect Me You Human Ask Being

Every movement that slays its gods creates new ones, of course. I loathe talk of the sixties and seventies being a 'Greatest Generation' of artists, but if we're going to use such idiotic appellations, let this one also be applied to the artists, curators, and gallerists who emerged in the first half of the nineties.

Generation New Talk Sixties Movement

There's a bookstore in New York where you could buy scripts, and I got addicted to them because they were easy, quick reads... and the pictures were so vivid.

Robbie Robertson

New York Easy You Pictures New Buy

I want my presence to be felt whenever I step on the field.

Step Want Presence Field Felt

If you've been trained to listen to mistakes your whole life, you forget to listen to opportunities.

Lucia Micarelli

Life Mistakes Opportunities You Been

Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity.

Life Work Perfection World Illusion

Novelists in particular love to rhapsodize about the glory of the solitary mind; this is natural, because their job requires them to sit in a room by themselves for years on end. But for most of the rest of us, we think and remember socially.

Love Job Mind Rest Think End

I'm not really into the numbers game of, like, what position our record is. But you find out at the end, you know? You're like 'Oh, all right! That's good!' We had a Number Three record. That's crazy! What's that about? That's exciting to me! I think that's good.

Good Me Crazy Game Think End

Football is my life, but my family's health is the most important thing in the world.

Life Family Health Football World

I am from Trinidad and Tobago, so I actually grew up in Tobago on the beach, just running around, playing, watching really creative people, and being exposed to really deep, rich stories from a young age.

Age Beach Creative I Am People Deep

It's often hilarious to me that I'm writing about Tonga or some tropical place and there's a blizzard outside and the cows are on their backs with their hooves in the air.

Me Writing Place Outside Air Cows

Mankiewicz was a brilliant director.

Richard Widmark

Brilliant Director

I was the lead singer in a lot of the bands I was in. You have to be comfortable. You gotta get up there and sell the song. You have to get up there and sell the lyric. You gotta be able to feel it.

Song Feel You Comfortable Singer Up

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