Jackie Robinson Quotes

I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.

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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Every apartment I've ever lived in has had a space to make, create, and get stuff done within eyesight of my bed.

Joe Gebbia

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There's no drama like wrestling.

Andy Kaufman

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I'm not a standup, but I play one on TV.

Ana Gasteyer

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As soon as I heard 'Calypso,' I loved it.

Stefflon Don

LovedSoonHeard

Immediate, simultaneous connection between the audience and a performer is crucial to me. It's why I do what I do. Other things, like recording, are satisfying, but they're not the same. I love the connection I get with the audience when I'm sitting behind that piano.

Jason Robert Brown

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For me, democracy must deliver a better life for the people.

Joko Widodo

LifePeopleMeDemocracyBetter

I tweet 20 times a day, not only about Mexican politics, but about film, books, restaurants, U.S. politics.

Denise Dresser

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I'm not really in a rush to grow up.

Doug Liman

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No one writes dialect better than Flannery O'Connor. No one should even try.

David Sedaris

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Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.

Christopher Dawson

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I always have a moment when I know I'm designing the last costume that gets made for a movie, and it's always been floating up there, but it's kind of the last one. That's always probably the hardest one for me.

Colleen Atwood

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You want to go to a summer concert and not watch a band staring at its shoes for six hours and complaining.

Bret Michaels

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