"You have to know what's happening in the locker rooms, you have to know what's happening at the grass-roots level. That's the best way to work."

-- Jacques Rogge

#Roots Quotes #Levels Quotes #Lockers Quotes

“And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.”
“Females in our generation morals are just out the window. Materialistic things aren't life. I'd rather walk in the rain with a man who treats me like a queen than to ride in a Benz with a man who treats me like crap.”
“Elephants and grandchildren never forget.”
“[Larry Kramer] got really mad at me once. The precipitating incident was a speech at Yale by the first President Bush's Secretary of Heath and Human Services, Louis Sullivan, against which Larry led a demonstration. He got the demonstrators to drown out Sullivan's speech, which wasn't allowed.”
“The unique impression of Jesus upon mankind - whose name is not so much written as ploughed into the history of the world - is proof of the subtle virtue of this infusion. Jesus belonged to the race of prophets. He saw with open eyes the mystery of the soul. One man was true to what is in you and me. He, as I think, is the only soul in history who has appreciated the worth of man.”
“When people tell me nothing has changed, I say come walk in my shoes and I will show you change.”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 07, 2015
“Irritation. I'm too old to get angry. Anger, that's an emotion for more serious things”
“One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.”

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