Barney Ross Quotes

The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something.

Barney Ross

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 23, 1909 - January 17, 1967

Topics

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Everyone wants instant gratification: you have to have everything your parents had right away.

Jim Flaherty

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Cities are a melting pot for different ideas, and diversity brings a high-energy rhythm that I don't think we'd know was gone until it was too late.

Joe Gebbia

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I got on the scale and I weighed around 203. I'm only 5'7. I was about to turn 30, and I wasn't active anymore. So I started working with a nutritionist and a trainer. I played basketball twice a week. And soon it all just became a habit for me. I became addicted to something good for a change.

Jerry Ferrara

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The language of violence that many whites use to describe anti-racist endeavors is not without significance, as it is another example of how white fragility distorts reality.

Robin DiAngelo

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College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.

Ruby Wax

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I grew up a hip-hop kid doing mix-tapes.

Mike Posner

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They say baseball is a slow game. It sure doesn't seem that way when you're in the dugout. You think you have it figured out, but things come up quick.

Mike Quade

BaseballGameThinkSlowYouSay

I'm not the kind of filmmaker who's going to go from one thing to the next. I often wish I was that filmmaker, but I'm just not.

Jonathan Glazer

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I've never taken the easy route. I don't even know what that is!

Bozoma Saint John

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We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.

Anne Lamott

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Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

William Shakespeare

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In many ways, our homes act as one big drain that, through our daily relationship with water, carries many toxic substances into our waterways and the environment.

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

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