Ymca famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Millions of guys play millions of basketball games every day of the week at the playground or the YMCA. But LeBron James gets $20 million a year because he can jam on all of those guys. We're always going to want to see LeBron and Kobe go at it.
-- Adam Carolla

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I had always wanted to be an actress. I went to summer theater camp from kindergarten on up until high school, and always had the leads in all the plays - even though they were at the YMCA - but it was something I always wanted to do.
-- Chloe Sevigny

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Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.
-- Constance Baker Motley

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I've never changed my life since I was 4 and went to the YMCA with a gym bag. I still have that philosophy. In fact, I still have that gym bag.
-- Dan Gable

#Philosophy #Wrestling #Ymca
I never lost a freestyle race. Never. Not even in the YMCA.
-- Johnny Weissmuller

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I used to race at the YMCA in Crystal Lake, Illinois, they used to have a dirt track there, and there was also a track near Rockford, Illinois, that I would go to.
-- Matt Skiba

#Race #Ymca #Lakes
We did have three go to the YMCA.
-- Abe Lemons

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No generation can do another generation's work for it. What we human beings can do at most is to mark out the pathway a little clearer for the generations to come after, and put legible signboards at the points where the greatest dangers have threatened us, in the hope that our posterity will read, understand, and be warned.
I think people who are horrifically abused as children and then start to repeat the same thing to their own offspring or to others, you start to see evil inherent. That's what the Catholic Church feels is necessary to exorcise, to cleanse.
I get fed up with plots that are driven by someone constantly getting information on a computer.
Every girl pretends she is a princess at one point, no matter how little her life is like that.
I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with its claim in promissory materialism to account eventually for all of the spiritual world in terms of patterns of neuronal activity. This belief must be classed as a superstition. ... We have to recognize that we are spiritual beings with souls existing in a spiritual world as well as material beings with bodies and brains existing in a material world.
The Bowery was a place that would let us do original songs - not just covers - but we would have to work for tips, so we learned how to work an audience. In order to keep our jobs, we had to keep people happy, so that meant playing the latest Lynyrd Skynyrd and ZZ Top or Merle Haggard.
A moment of anger can destroy a lifetime of work, whereas a moment of love can break barriers that took a lifetime to build.
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy by serving your fellow man.
If I wasn't plagued by needing to write things, that would perhaps be a blessing.