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I got this letter asking me if I wanted to or if I would consider going to experimental test pilot school and becoming the first Negro astronaut and I thought it was crazy.

- Ed Dwight
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Footwork isn't something you hear people talk about too much but it's something as fighters we have to be able to utilize. - Cub Swanson
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We step up and fight the top names that nobody wants to fight. So if I hear people saying, 'oh, you're ducking this or ducking that,' no I haven't ducked anybody. - Ryan Bader
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#Nobody
#People
#Saying
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I like to stand and bang with people. If they mess up, I'm gonna slam them. - Quinton Jackson
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I'm around a world-class staff that is pushing me to the limit while making sure I don't break myself, which is something I've had a problem with. - Michael Chiesa
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#Myself
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Monday though Wednesday I am in the gym twice; then I have school at night. Those days are hard. The other days are training and writing essays. Time management has been key. - Tecia Torres
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I'm an average person, I just decided to work hard and dedicate myself to something. That's the only thing that separates people like me from people sitting on the couch. - Travis Browne
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#People
#Person
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There are too many fights in our sport that are exciting, and you've got to let us fight. - Frank Mir
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You have to beat your opponent, otherwise you get to walk home with a black eye and wounded pride. - Josh Barnett
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That feeling of getting your hand raised. It's hard to explain with words, you have to do it to understand the feeling of a 'W.' That's what drives me. - Alexander Gustafsson
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#Me
#Understand
#Words
There are two guys that I think are underrated - Thiago Tavarres and Tyson Griffin. - Wanderlei Silva
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If we fought like the old days, with no time limit, it would be better to work. We only have five minutes to work per round so it's complicated, especially because everybody knows that my ground game is good. - Demian Maia
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#Good
#Time
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The wrestling community is a tight community, I love you all. - Ryan Bader
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#Love You
#Love
I do want some abs. I miss my abs, man. - Quinton Jackson
#Man
#Miss
#Some
#Want
I'm a fighter. I'm a worker. - Glover Teixeira
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To represent the Latin American people - especially Latin American women, there's not many of us fighting. To be one of the ones that are able to set a precedent and to fight in Mexico is really amazing. - Tecia Torres
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#Fighting
#People
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Until I have that belt, defended that belt and left a legacy with my name and what I've done in that cage, then I'll have time to relax and take in what I've done. - Travis Browne
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You have to go out there and win battles before you can raid the dead of all their belongings. - Josh Barnett
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It feels like my life is much more than fighting in the Octagon. - Alexander Gustafsson
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#Life
#Like
#More
#My Life
I don't have any superstitions, because I am a Christian. - Wanderlei Silva
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#Any
#Because
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#I Am
People always go to the ground with me trying to just hold me. They stall and wait for the referee to stand them back up so they can start it all over. - Demian Maia
#Back
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#People
#Start
#Wait
At the end of the day, you have to get finishes. If you want to be successful in this industry that's what you need. - Artem Lobov
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#Want
I want people to know that anyone, from anywhere, can make it as far as they want, as long if they are willing to do what it takes. - Cub Swanson
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#Long
#People
#Want
I know there's nobody working harder than me. - T.J. Dillashaw
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#Me
#Nobody
#Working
I need to be a promoter, man. I need to start a promotion. If I was a promoter, man, I would be the best matchmaker. I would be putting on the most exciting fights. - Quinton Jackson
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#Man
#Need
#Promotion
#Start
Anytime my life has ever thrown me a curveball, I can go back to that and draw a lot of confidence for myself knowing I can persevere. - Michael Chiesa
#Confidence
#Life
#Me
#My Life
#Myself
When I come to the United States, I came here illegally. I didn't know I was going to be a fighter. I just thought I was going to work landscaping for, I don't know, three, four years, then go back to Brazil and live my life. - Glover Teixeira
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#Live
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To fight in Mexico is amazing. - Tecia Torres
#Amazing
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#Mexico
I think the more that people appreciate the sport, the more they're a fan of it. - Frank Mir
#Fan
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#More
#People
#Think
Titles are spoils of war. - Josh Barnett
#Spoils
#Titles
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I think many fighters could go pro in another sport. When it really boils down to it, it's because we are the best athletes in the world. - Cub Swanson
#Best
#Down
#Go
#Think
#World
Even though we don't speak the same language, we're friends. I still make him laugh. You know it's hard to make Fedor laugh, he don't change his facial expressions at all. I don't even know if he understands what I be saying, but when he gets around me, he be smiling. - Quinton Jackson
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#Laugh
#Me
#Speak
Barnett is a veteran of the game, but at the same time, I've been fighting guys with a lot of experience my entire career. - Travis Browne
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#Experience
#Fighting
#Game
#Time
I love martial arts, so why wouldn't I want to help people understand it more? - Frank Mir
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#Love
#People
#Understand
#Why
I really like Robert De Niro. - Gegard Mousasi
#Like
#Really
#Robert De Niro
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If I focus on one person, the idea is that, oh, now you've attained this goal and beaten one person. One person. Well, what about the rest of them? Now how are you going to feel about fighting them? What's the motiviation there? - Josh Barnett
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#Person
#Rest
My return was interesting because Bellator gave me a stage that was worthy of the return of Wanderlei Silva. I was the main event, sold out. - Wanderlei Silva
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#Me
#Return
#Stage
#Worthy
It is very important that football can see beyond religion but FIFA does not just ignore its impact. - Sepp Blatter
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#Ignore
#Impact
#Religion
#See
One cannot negotiate under fire. - Ariel Sharon
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#Fire
#Negotiate
Acquaintance lessens fame. - Claudius
#Acquaintance
#Fame
The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing. - Abdullah II of Jordan
#Back
#Good
#Look
#Spring
#Will
It's the publicity function of Amnesty that I think has made its name so widely known, not only to readers in the world, but to governments - and that's what matters. - Peter Benenson
#Matters
#Name
#Only
#Publicity
#World
If Roe v. Wade were overturned tomorrow, nobody would even notice, because the states are legislating their own laws about abortion, completely independent. - Wendy Long
#Abortion
#Independent
#Nobody
#Tomorrow
The charge of being ambiguous and indefinite may be brought against every human composition, and necessarily arises from the imperfection of language. Perhaps no two men will express the same sentiment in the same manner and by the same words; neither do they connect precisely the same ideas with the same words. - Oliver Ellsworth
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#Ideas
#Imperfection
#Men
#Words
In seeking a lawyer, you are looking for an advocate, an expert advisor on the law and on your rights and responsibilities, a strategist, a negotiator, and a litigator. - Laura Wasser
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#Law
#Lawyer
#Looking
I engaged upon those activities because I believed that, in the dangerous circumstances which have been created in South Africa, it was my duty to do so. - Bram Fischer
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#Dangerous
#Duty
Clients trust you to represent their interest in the highest court. - Lisa Blatt
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#Highest
#Interest
#Trust
If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time. - F. Lee Bailey
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#Somewhere
#Time
#Will
#Win
Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium. - Nathalie Sarraute
#Another
#Equilibrium
#Itself
#Suspicion
We found out that we were dealing with a completely unregulated chemical, this chemical PFOA. This was a chemical that was a completely manmade material invented right after World War Two, didn't exist on the planet prior to the 1940s. - Robert Bilott
#Chemical
#Right
#Two
#War
#World
When you vote, vote for those who are not warmongers, and vote for those who respect human rights. When you see a president who doesn't respect human rights, don't vote for that person. - Shirin Ebadi
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#Person
#Respect
#See
#Vote
We shall listen, not lecture; learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In short, our foreign policy will rest on the traditional American values of restraint and empathy, not on military might. - Theodore C. Sorensen
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#Rest
#Safety
It was an interesting experience to work alongside the solicitor general's team and then turn around and argue against them. You certainly grow as a lawyer from getting such a varied set of experiences. - Sri Srinivasan
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#Lawyer
#Turn
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As anyone familiar with my scholarship knows, I am not a huge fan of inherent powers in most contexts. - David Stras
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#Fan
#I Am
#Knows
#Scholarship
It's so worth-while being a judge, because, if I make good, I can help prove that a woman's place is as much on the bench, in City Council, or in Congress, as in the home. - Florence Ellinwood Allen
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#Home
#Place
#Woman
I think people need to commit to one another before they commit to bringing children into the world because that's the optimum arrangement for children, not to take anything at all away from women who have to rear their children by themselves. - Leah Ward Sears
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#Need
#People
#Women
#World
While driving to work, I'll choose to think about a particular subject rather than just have random thought streams landing on one subject or another. For example, I might think about the structure of an opinion. Or I might think about the first sentence of an opinion, refining it. - Raymond Kethledge
#Choose
#First
#Opinion
#Random
#Work
We have differing views on law, politics and religion. But I have yet to meet a Scalia clerk who was not grateful to the man who taught us, shaped us, and launched us into our lives in the law. Justice Scalia's passing leaves a giant void in the court and in the intellectual discourse over the law. - Joan Larsen
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#Law
#Man
#Politics
#Religion
No nation can answer for the equity of proceedings in all its inferior courts. It suffices to provide a supreme judicature by which error and partiality may be corrected. - Benjamin Robbins Curtis
#Answer
#Courts
#Equity
#Error
#Nation
New Jersey has decided that fewer handguns legally carried in public means less crime. It is obvious that the justifiable need requirement functions as a rationing system designed to limit the number of handguns carried in New Jersey. - Thomas Hardiman
#Less
#Limit
#Need
#New
#System
I am not a fan of President Trump, I should say. I wouldn't try to comment on every particular issue in which we disagree, but there are plenty of them. - John Paul Stevens
#Fan
#I Am
#President
#Say
#Try
A wartime Minister of Information is compelled, in the national interest, to such continuous acts of duplicity that even his natural hair must grow to resemble a wig. - Claud Cockburn
#Grow
#Hair
#Information
#Interest
#Must
'Beyond Belief with George Noory' will be an hour-long show that cuts to the heart of what's going on with people today, topics wide-ranging and generally nonpolitical, but even more edgy. - George Noory
#Belief
#Heart
#People
#Today
#Will
As Israel prepares to enter, my position is well known. It is one that I have taken at previous Olympics. It is wrong that the IOC refuses to have a minute's silence for Israeli athletes that were slaughtered in Munich. - Brian Williams
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#Silence
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#Wrong
I think service is honorable, and that was always inculcated in me. - Rachel Maddow
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#Me
#Service
#Think
I get much more information about the rest of the world from people who are not Americans. You get a distance from America that is useful for a journalist; useful for my perspective on the world. - Charlayne Hunter-Gault
#Information
#Perspective
#Rest
#World
Most robotic heads have 20 motors. Mine have 32. - David Hanson
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#Mine
#Most
#Motors
#Robotic
Art scares me. I don't feel cool enough to be an artist. - Simone Giertz
#Art
#Cool
#Enough
#Feel
#Me
There's a smugness that goes with being a huge company. The big fish say, 'If it's so great, why didn't we invent it?' But how'd you like to be makin' buggy whips when cars came along? - Woody Norris
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#Company
#Fish
#Great
#Why
In business it is most often all about getting your foot in the door and once you do, everything opens up and things start to naturally progress into bigger and more opportunities. - Lori Greiner
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#Door
#More
#Progress
#Start
The perception of identity is so intimately bound up with the perception of the human form. - David Hanson
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#Human
#Identity
#Perception
#Up
One might almost say that the history of geographical discovery, properly so called, begins with Captain Cook, the motive of whose voyages was purely scientific curiosity. - Joseph Jacobs
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#Curiosity
#Discovery
#History
The fate of Syria hangs in the balance, but it is entirely possible that the fall of the Assad regime will result in anarchy and cause Syria to turn into a second Afghanistan, a base for anti-Israel terrorism. - Martin Van Creveld
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#Fall
#Fate
#Result
#Terrorism
I spent a lot of my infancy in hospital and actually started school in a wheelchair with this enormous plaster, and then into a surgical boot and callipers, none of which helps assimilation with other children. - David Starkey
#Assimilation
#Children
#Hospital
#School
Analysis of soil, grave goods and skeletons has been key to our understanding of archaeology and the migration of peoples, as well as their daily lives. But in mainstream history, we tend to stick to documents. - Kate Williams
#Daily
#History
#Migration
#Understanding
An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body. - Edgar Quinet
#Body
#Both
#Education
#Effeminate
#Mind
The longer the game went on, you got the feeling that neither side really wanted to lose. - Mark Lawrenson
#Feeling
#Game
#Lose
#Side
#Wanted
I would like to thank Barcelona for putting their trust in me and my future abilities. - Claudio Bravo
#Future
#Like
#Me
#Trust
#Would
For a long time at Blackburn and at Fulham last season, I was playing on the right wing. I've never seen myself as a right-winger. I could play there and come inside and try to create. - Tom Cairney
#Create
#Long Time
#Long
#Myself
#Time
I didn't speak much Italian. I did a few courses so I knew a bit before I got there but you have to be there to learn. When I went out for lunch or dinner on my own it was very complicated to order. I spent two months eating the same thing. I always asked for spaghetti carbonara and a fizzy drink. Then I had to diet to lose the weight I gained. - Felipe Anderson
#Diet
#Dinner
#Eating
#Lose
#Lunch
People ask me what it's like scoring a goal. Well, think of the best thing that could happen to you and times it by 10. - Charlie Austin
#Best
#Happen
#Me
#People
#Well
I always had a dream of coming here to play in the Premier League so, for me, it's a dream come true. - Victor Lindelof
#Always
#Coming
#Me
#Play
#True
I had a few teams after me, but when I heard Reading were interested I didn't think about other teams. - Reece Oxford
#About
#After
#Me
#Reading
#Think
Sergio Aguero, everyone knows how good his finishing is, but to play up against him... these top players, until I played against them I didn't realise how good they were. - Neil Etheridge
#Against
#Everyone
#Good
#Play
#Players
Being a young player arriving at a big club is great. It's something that really helps me on the way. - Eric Bailly
#Club
#Great
#Me
#Way
#Young
To have a player like Harry Kane is unbelievable because he gives us security. He makes us feel safe because he has character and is the best striker. - Paulo Gazzaniga
#Best
#Character
#Feel
#Safe
#Security
So I feel like if I'm with the best players, it's easier to develop myself to be honest. - Sergino Dest
#Best
#Feel
#I Feel
#Myself
#Players
But when I joined up with England I felt lucky to be there, and it was the same at Liverpool. And when I look back now I realise I lost something mentally as a player, by allowing that to happen. - Rickie Lambert
#Back
#Look
#Lost
#Now
#Something
Sometimes you can get distracted by figures that are thrown out there and you're doing things you wouldn't normally try to do. - Sean Longstaff
#Doing
#Get
#Sometimes
#Things
#Try
I know friends who took what I call the easy way and some of them are now dead, or in jail, because they were involved in bad things. - Davinson Sanchez
#Bad
#Dead
#Easy
#Know
#Way
Pre-season is a lot of hard work and no player really enjoys it, but you look forward to the start of the season when the competitive games start. - Roberto Di Matteo
#Hard Work
#Hard
#Look
#Start
#Work
I am a happy man. I am no longer out on the pitch but I still live in the football world. - Eusebio
#Football
#I Am
#Live
#Man
#World
Maradona was absolutely the best player I ever played with. - Mario Kempes
#Absolutely
#Best
#Ever
#Played
#Player
When I was a player the mentality was black people would make good players but weren't captain material or managerial material. That stereotyping existed. - Chris Hughton
#Black
#Captain
#Good
#Mentality
#People
I want my children to have a normal life and not face racism and their children's children. - Patrick van Aanholt
#Children
#Face
#Life
#Normal Life
#Want
Luckily, I have a thing inside me that I wake up and I am happy every day. But boys and girls want to live the dream and are looking at everything you do on a day-to-day basis. - Robert Snodgrass
#Day
#I Am Happy
#I Am
#Live
#Me
I always wanted to experience 50 games at least in a season because all the top players in the world, they do that every year. - Aaron Mooy
#Always
#Experience
#Players
#Top
#World
When I joined Newcastle, at the beginning it was difficult. During pre-season, there was no Ramadan and I also didn't score then. So it's a myth. It was about getting into the team, knowing the players better and how they play. My team-mates also have to understand how I play and move. - Demba Ba
#Beginning
#Better
#Difficult
#Understand
I've spent my entire adulthood in pro football. - Jason Witten
#Adulthood
#Football
#Pro Football
#Pro
I grew up in the '90s loving the basketball sneakers, and that's where fashion really started for me. - Travis Kelce
#Fashion
#Loving
#Me
#Sneakers
#Up
They gave me my career. Coach O and LSU resurrected my career and made me what I am today. - Joe Burrow
#Career
#Coach
#I Am
#Me
#Today
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