Quotes with long-jump

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  • Armistead Maupin My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Bob Beamon My participation in the Art of the Olympians is a natural extension of my athletic career. I find creating a piece of art in many respects mirrors my long jumping efforts illustrating that hard work and inspiration will always be the foundation for success.
    Bob Beamon
    American track and field athlete (1946 - )
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  • Anthony Doerr My sister-in-law is a painter, and I'll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She'll say, It took me maybe three days, but it took me all my life to get the skills to paint that painting.
    Anthony Doerr
    American author (1973 - )
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  • Beverly Sills My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't.
    Beverly Sills
    American operatic soprano (1929 - 2007)
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  • E. M. Cioran Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Berkeley Breathed Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books.
    Berkeley Breathed
    American cartoonist, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Carter G. Woodson Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Menander of Athens Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.
    Menander of Athens
    Greek dramati poet (342 - 291)
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  • Jean Baudrillard Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • William Shakespeare Nimble thought can jump both sea and land.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli No Government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Samuel Johnson No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Annie Jump Cannon No greater problem is presented to the human mind.
    Annie Jump Cannon
    American astronomer (1863 - 1941)
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  • George Bernard Shaw No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Booker T. Washington No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Bon Scott No matter how long you play rock and roll, songs might change just as long as the balls are there, the rock balls. And that's what's important to us
    Source: Interview with Record Review, 1979
    Bon Scott
     
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  • Minor White No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.
    Minor White
     
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  • Bertolt Brecht No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Lawrence Durrell No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
    Lawrence Durrell
    British Author (1912 - 1990)
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  • Mary Cholmondeley No one ever yet was the poorer in the long run for having once in a lifetime ''Let out all the length of all the reins.''
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