Carl Lewis Quotes

You're not going to get a chance to vote for me on the ballot, but you can actually vote for what I believe in.

Carl Lewis

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I was brought up in black neighborhoods in South Baltimore. And we really felt like we were very black. We acted black and we spoke black. When I was a kid growing up, where I came from, it was hip to be black. To be white was kind of square.

Jerry Leiber

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TV is the best babysitter.

John Goodman

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I don't feel like I'm writing music for gay people. I'm a gay man who is writing music about one tiny little experience of what it's like to be a human on this planet.

John Grant

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Certain people are not going to connect with a book about the effect a dog has on a family. But every one of us has parents and has either said goodbye to those parents or knows that someday they will.

John Grogan

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Phil Jackson was a brilliant basketball coach, not just because of the offense that he employed, but it was so many other things that went into it.

Jeff Van Gundy

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If I were God, I would just be up there scratching my head, thinking, 'What the hell am I supposed to do with this?' For everyone helping an old lady across the street, there's someone else bludgeoning a person to death. And sometimes they're the same. How can He separate us all out?

Michael Shannon

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It is easy enough to hold an opinion, but rather more testing to act on it.

Jonathan Dimbleby

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I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life there, although I was evacuated a couple of times for short periods. My schooling was very interrupted, both by frequent moves and by ill health.

Anne Perry

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While the digital transformation of industries will be profound, we must keep in mind that it will have wider economic and social impact, too, as with previous revolutions driven by steam and coal, electricity and computers.

Pierre Nanterme

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At 52 and unaltered, people tell me I look good for my age. This is not the same as being told you're beautiful.

Paulina Porizkova

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I've been well-known in Britain for a long time.

Martin Freeman

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When you come from living in a dorm room with no clothes, no girls, no cars, and then you go to having three cars, girls, and money, you can't help but be genuinely happy that things are moving in a positive direction.

Lil Yachty

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