Jackie Robinson Quotes

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.

Jackie Robinson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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That period, doing 'Angels in America' in '94 and then filming with 'Basquiat' in '95, those were gateway years for me as an artist. Two gateways, one into the film industry and one into the world of theater, each formative to me in different, equally essential ways.

Jeffrey Wright

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I love being on the road, but to make a living as a road comic, you have to be on it most weeks out of the year. That's just too much for me. But I would love to be such a successful road comic that I don't have to go on it every week.

Jen Kirkman

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I spent my first paycheck on a vintage Mercedes.

Jennifer Aniston

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I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

John D. Rockefeller

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You spend some time raising a child in London, carrying it around on one side of your body - it puts your back out!

Matthew Goode

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I match up with the best guys in the world. I'm not being cocky; it's just always how I felt. But I got into trouble as soon as I got into the NBA, and it left a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths.

Michael Beasley

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What I enjoy about reviewing and writing for newspapers and periodicals is simply the chance to talk about all kinds of books and lots of them.

Michael Dirda

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I love the grandiosity, how sweepingly entertaining films can be. And I think there's a place for films that pry more into the human condition.

Colin Farrell

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The people who do the scoring and the music for movies are very talented, really special people.

Claudia Christian

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I want titles: it's what I want and what I lack. I give everything for it.

Antoine Griezmann

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I never wanna settle; I never wanna be complacent - I gotta outwork everybody.

Poo Bear

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I held the generous, strong, beautiful hand of my first wife Cassie as ovarian cancer took her life much too soon.

Pierce Brosnan

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