"Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times."

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Source : "Manchester's sporting success led to Team GB's Olympic glory" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2008.

Lucy Powell

#Sports Quotes #Art Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“It just felt really strange to be in demand”
“So this is it. You are scored on my heart, Clark. You were from the first day you walked in, with your ridiculous clothes and your bad jokes and your complete inability to ever hide a single thing you felt.”
“It only takes one clear person to have a good relationship.”
“A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.”

Source : "Quotable Quotes". Reader's Digest, p.144, March 31, 1997.
“I believe in kindness and niceness and lots of spiritual things, but the real intellectual rigor and quest of logic is something that I'm afraid takes incredibly hard work and we live in an age in which hard work is if not actively deprecated or denigrated it is run away from or ignored.”
“If we are to be really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill.”
“Marriage of attraction is a gamble anyway, so you might as well marry into a family that is similar to your own, and make that much less of an adjustment. But the 'love marriage', as it is called, is equally common in India now. But it would be interesting to do a comparison of what would work better. Marriage is hard work, and it is a gamble.”
“I am in control here, in the White House.”

Source : Quoted in Wash. Post, 4 Apr. 1981

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