I was president of the schools in junior high and high school, got a scholarship to New York University, played a little basketball, and was a celebrity. Louis Gossett, Jr. Read Quote
As long as inequality and other social problems plague us, populists will try to exploit them. Kofi Annan Read Quote
China is a major power in the Pacific and I think we are dealing with some common threats in that region: the whole issue of Korea and the stability of Korea, the whole issue of nuclear proliferation, the whole issue of providing free access to our ships that are operating in that area. Leon Panetta Read Quote
Stand-up comedy and comedy in general is the ultimate form of free speech, because you get to poke holes in all the pretentious bubbles politicians and pundits and popes and pretenders try to float over our heads. Denis Leary Read Quote
I’ve just got to be the best player that I can be and worry about what I’ve got to do to help out the team, and be the best team out there we can be, and the best player I can be out there on the field to help out the team. Rob Gronkowski Read Quote
So many athletes are afraid to use their platform to do the right thing and speak what they feel, and that’s very depressing. Sure, they are afraid of insulting people and losing money because of it, and everyone wants to make the maximum amount of money in their lifetime. But at the expense of who you are? I don’t know. That just wasn’t in my DNA. Martina Navratilova Read Quote
I think where traditional values are concerned, Chinese people see nature as very symbolic. It’s a form of culture. Ma Yansong Read Quote
I received a lot from tennis, so it’s good to help others because it’s very difficult. Many talented kids get lost because they don’t have the money. Tennis is an expensive sport in Romania. Simona Halep Read Quote
My mother encouraged it so much. She was so supportive. Even if as a kid, I would do the dumbest trick, which now that I look back on some things, she would love it, she would say that’s amazing, or if I’d make the ugliest drawing, she would hang it up. She was amazing. David Blaine Read Quote
