"For me, growing up I watched Michael Jordan win all those championships, and I dreamed of being in that same spot one day. So to actually be here, and have one under my belt is an amazing feeling."

-- Mario Chalmers

#Growing Up Quotes #Winning Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“Never neglect an opportunity to play leap-frog; it is the best of all games, and, unlike the terribly serious and conscientious pastimes of modern youth, will never become professionalized.”

Source : Hesketh Pearson (1971). “Beerbohm Tree; his life and laughter”
“Haiti was founderd by a righteous revolution in 1804 and became the first black republic. It was the first country to break the chains of slavery, the first to force Emperor Napoleon to retreat, and the only to aid SimÃ³n BolÃvar in his struggle to liberate the indigenous people and slaves of Latin America from their colonial oppressors.”
“It's so rare that you meet your idols and they outdo your expectations.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“The Communist threat from without must not blind us to the Communist threat from within. The latter is reaching into the very heart of America through its espionage agents and a cunning, defiant, and lawless communist party, which is fanatically dedicated to the Marxist cause of world enslavement and destruction of the foundations of our republic.”
“I have carefully weighed the virtues and the faults of the Filipino and I have come to the conclusion that he is worth dying for.”

Source : "Worth dying for". Benigno Aquino, Jr.'s speech before the Asia Society in New York City, visayandailystar.com. August 4, 1980.
“Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God; it whets our appetite.”
“The presidents varied in the degree to which they cited the founders. Some, like JFK, LBJ, [Richard] Nixon, and [Bill] Clinton, cited them somewhat frequently, in the range of 100 to 200 times, though, regrettably, not in a thematic or notably profound or even interesting way. Others, like Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, cited them rarely.”
“Doctors have told me I have a high pain threshold, but I can only know what I feel. I think I'm good at minimising the pain and being indifferent to it.”

Source : "Johnny Knoxville's house of pain" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2010.

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