Jackie Robinson Quotes

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Jackie Robinson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I've always strived to keep mixing it up, keep doing different things, and work in all different parts of our business.

Jimmy Smits

WorkBusinessDoingAlwaysUpKeep

I'm not running from any particular problems, I just want to take some time and figure out in my life where I can keep doing what I'm doing but in a way that I can also honor what I want to do for myself.

Andy Stern

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But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?

Amelia Barr

HeartKnowOwnOurNearest

But, when I was about thirteen, I began to sort of sing in my neighborhood.

Ruben Blades

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Is it my end-all and be-all to become a standup comic? No.

Jason Alexander

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'Alien' asked ground-breaking questions about eco-politics and female empowerment. 'The Matrix' delved deeper into the concept of perception versus reality than perhaps any other film I know. But for some reason, we tend not to remember the significance of their writing.

Jason Reitman

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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

Coco Chanel

WisdomSomeoneSomethingCaresHow

I've always said the hardest aspect of the job of being a writer is writing.

Bob Mayer

JobWritingSaidAlwaysBeing

With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts.

Bruce Conner

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All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and actions, and the actions of their military forces, in the best possible light.

Bruce Jackson

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If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things?

Antonin Scalia

FeelingsMoralThingsAgainstCannot

The very first lead work that I made is called 'Land Sea and Air,' and is the enclosure of primal elements within that kind of carapace of lead.

Antony Gormley

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