"In the space of less than seven days, I attended a track meet in Boston, flew from there to Bowling Green for the National Jaycees, then to Rochester for the blind, Buffalo for another track meet, New York to shoot a film called The Black Athlete, Miami for Ford Motor Company, back up to New York for 45 minutes to deliver a speech, then into L. A. for another the same night."

-- Jesse Owens

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“Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn't.”
“Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.”
“I think we all agreed to take a bunch of Xanax at some point.”

Source : "Interview with Horror Icon Tony Todd". Interview with Rob Frappier, screenrant.com. October 1, 2010.
“But for the first time in many years, I get to sleep in my own bed every night. I haven't done that, literally, in years. It seems like such a small thing, but it is so nice.”
“It amused me to think that one can tell the truth when one is drunk and nobody will believe it.”
“I think it's important to remember that these men are not perfect. If they were marble gods, what they did wouldn't be so admirable. The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them.”
“Pick a destination, go there, be open-minded and talk to the locals. Eat the things they eat and go where they go. You don't need to be fluent, just as long as you've got a smile on your face- people will be jumping over themselves to show you the stuff they're proud of.”
“It is not arrogance to appreciate what Allah has blessed you with; arrogance is to ascribe those blessings to yourself.”

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