"Getting the degree meant more to me than an NCAA title, being named All-American or winning an Olympic gold medal."

-- Patrick Ewing

#Education Quotes #Winning Quotes #Ncaa Quotes

“Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there; they cause change. They motivate and inspire others to go in the right direction and they, along with everyone else, sacrifice to get there.”
“I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to invent their families just as they have to invent themselves.”

Source : Philip Levine (2002). “So ask: essays, conversations, and interviews”, Univ of Michigan Pr
“You know, your career is just your career; your life is your life!”
“History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner.”

Source : Claudio Magris (2001). “Danube”, Vintage
“The modern city consists of...dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise...”
“They always ask me the same questions. Where was I born? When did I start singing? Who have I worked with? I don't understand why they can't just talk to me without all that question bit.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.”
“MTV wanted to downplay our lifestyles and pretend we weren't getting the checks that we actually were, so I think that was the blurry line between the lives we were really living and the lives that they wanted us to live, and things like that.”

Source : Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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