Jackie Robinson Quotes

Blacks have had to learn to protect themselves by being cynical but not cynical enough to slam the door on potential opportunities. We go through life walking a tightrope to prevent too much disillusionment.

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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There's an appetite for vigour in films. The camera loves a bit of movement. Movement is usually attached to younger people and men, and that's just the way it is. I think that it's a bitter pill to swallow, but it's a fact that there aren't going to be masses and masses of roles for older women because there isn't the audience for it.

Joanna Lumley

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I don't think of myself as a New York actor; I think about this guy who's an actor who happens to be from New York.

Jeremy Luke

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The origin of each of us stems from codes of genetic inheritance.

John Eccles

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My wife is a professor at UCLA in Los Angeles, but otherwise, I'd be right back living on the Upper West Side.

John Lithgow

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Since China embraced Deng Xiaoping's reforms on 22 December 1978, China has experimented with different exchange-rate regimes. Until 1994, the yuan was in an ever-depreciating phase against the U.S. dollar.

Steve Hanke

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I don't think I can do this anymore.

Simon Cowell

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I'm very lucky because less than one percent of boxers get out of the game financially secure.

Tony Bellew

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Many of us actively working to interrupt racism continually hear complaints about the 'gotcha' culture of white anti-racism. There is a stereotype that we are looking for every incident we can find so we can spring out, point our fingers, and shout, 'You're a racist!'

Robin DiAngelo

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SoftBank is not a specialist on any instrument. We did not invent any instrument. Not the best player. But we would like to be a conductor of this information revolution.

Masayoshi Son

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I've always noticed that girls cry way easier than guys do.

Michael Pena

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Every day on set, there was something to watch and learn.

Shawn Ashmore

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The original Return of the Living Dead, I was attached to direct it, and I wrote the story. Production was delayed. In the meantime I went to London to do Lifeforce.

Tobe Hooper

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