"Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over."

-- Miriam Makeba

#Running Quotes #Age Quotes #World Quotes

“I ask the people of Connecticut for their forgiveness, I should have paid more attention to people around me and people that I trusted but I am sorry for my actions and take full responsibility.”
“Slavery can never be abolished.”

Source : James Henry Hammond (1836). “Remarks of Mr. Hammond, of South Carolina, on the Question of Receiving Petitions for the Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia”, p.13
“It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.”

Source : Gerry Adams (2007). “An Irish Eye”, Brandon Books
“[Camila] was quite incapable of establishing any harmony between the claims of her art, of her appetites, or her dreams, and of her crowded daily routine. Each of these was a world in itself.”
“[Ruslan] Provodnikov has a totally different style than Manny Pacquiao and that's what training camp is all about and that's why I stay in shape year round, so I can work on strategy in camp instead of getting in shape.”

Source : Source: www.boxinginsider.com
“Im still amazed people remembered and didnt give up on me.”
“The movie I've watched a million times is 'A Face in the Crowd,' directed by Elia Kazan, starring Andy Griffith and Patricia Neal. I first saw this movie, I guess I was in my early 20s. I'd never heard of it, and somebody told me about it, and I watched it and was just completely jaw-droppingly shocked at how current it was.”

Source : "The Movie Callie Khouri Has 'Seen A Million Times'". "All Things Considered" with Celeste Headlee, news.stlpublicradio.org. October 14, 2012.
“All I do know, for certain, after 53 years in this business, is that writers who sincerely think that their language can represent reality ought to be plumbers.”

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