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Jackie Robinson Quotes

After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.

Jackie Robinson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Education Job Man Black Help Leave

All my life, since I was 16, I've been wondering where that next job was gonna come from.

Life Job My Life Next Wondering

I've been to enough other countries in the world to know what happens when you have socialized single-payer health care. It works. People don't get sick as much. They don't lose their life savings with a catastrophic illness like cancer or AIDS.

Life Health People World Sick Care

I was always fighting the establishment, trying to run through brick walls.

Walls Fighting Trying Brick Run

Wrestling isn't easy. It's like a car crash. I wish they would give guys a few weeks off. I think guys need to take mandatory time off. I know it's tough when they need to promote the key names, but they need to keep guys healthy.

Car Time Tough Think Key Wish

One of the biggest things happening in the art world is this idea of expansion. No one embodies this aspect of what art is becoming better than James Franco.

Art World Better Things Becoming

My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage.

Sonia Sotomayor

Good Hope I Am Gender Heritage Know

I'm still thinking and hoping there's an opportunity for people to have better lives and that significant change can occur.

Change Opportunity People Better

I came from a rural background, and I didn't come in contact with a lot of wealthy people.

People Contact Rural Background Come

Maybe I am a little bit guilty of trying to convince myself that I am cool to this point - even today. But I am so much more healthy than I used to be in my twenties, because I was not accepted at all.

Today Myself I Am Cool Trying More

I purchased a 1955 Rolls-Royce that my wife liked because it was new the year we were married. Then came a 1926 Hispano-Suiza Cabriolet that I bought at my first classic car auction after I had three martinis. As more cars were added, I had to buy a warehouse.

Car Wife Year New Three Classic

My idea right from the beginning, I guess, was to dismantle the immune system one gene at a time so we could track the mutations that cause problems.

Time Beginning Problems Right System

Publishing a short story can sometimes feel like shouting into the dark... your words come out, and then nothing... but I don't think that's why I tend to write novels rather than stories.

Alice McDermott

Words Story Think Short Feel Dark

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