"I'm of Arab background."

-- Helen Thomas

#Backgrounds Quotes

“Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt on an acre or two of ground, where a person can suffer and die and rise again on six miles of trails through a New York City park. Sport is a theater where sinner can turn saint and a common man become an uncommon hero, where the past and the future can fuse with the present. Sport is singularly able to give us peak experiences where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential.”
“Doing justice includes not only the righting of wrongs but generosity and social concern, especially toward the poor and vulnerable.”
“Be modest, be humble, be simple,”
“It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.”
“At some point in time I will be honored if I would be mentioned as a coach.”
“If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose the opportunity to think your way into the composer's mind, since, after all, most of these pieces are quite brief.”
“The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.”
“A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.”

Source : "Q&A: Richard Hell Has Gone to Heaven". Interview with Scott Martelle, www.esquire.com. March 8, 2013.

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