Legends Quotes

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  A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.

  Usain Bolt

  Motivational Sports, People, My Time

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.

  Lauren Bacall

  Past

  "The moments that last". Interview with Susie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2005.

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• Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.

  Helen Hayes

  Doe, Dies, Hard

  Helen Hayes (1969). “Another Fawcett Crest Book”

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• Legend remains victorious in spite of history.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Spite, Remains

  Sarah Bernhardt (1968). “Memories of my life, being my personal, professional, and social recollections as woman and artist”

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• We ought to change the legend on our money from "In God We Trust" to "In Money We Trust." Because, as a nation, we've got far more faith in money these days than we do in God.

  Art Hoppe

  Change, Money, These Days

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• History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the same goal; to depict eternal man beneath momentary man.

  Victor Hugo

  Reality, Men, Goal

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• A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds.

  David Lee Roth

  Rocks, Mind, Band

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• Robert Morley is a legend in his own lunchtime.

  Rex Harrison

  Lunchtime

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• We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin.

  Hugo Ball

  Beautiful, Heart, Age

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• Well, actually, I don't consider myself a jazz legend or anything.

  Joseph Jarman

  Jazz, Wells

  interview with Jason Gross, www.furious.com. October 1999.

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• But then I always wanted to play for Rangers. Man United is a great club and Alex Ferguson is a legend.

  Paul Gascoigne

  Men, Play, Alex

  "I'm Gazza - and I am an alcoholic", www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2001.

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• Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.

  Hervey Allen

  Civilization, Leaving, Departed

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• When you work with a legend as I do, it's wonderful. There's so many things I've learned working with Keith. He's so patient, not only with me, but with everyone in our crew and with the audience and with the game. He has a style that is so easy and will never be copied.

  Dan Fouts

  Sports, Games, Style

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• Jackie Robinson is a true legend.

  Sidney Poitier

  Jackie

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• In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism.

  Tina Brown

  Crafts, Journalism, Ends

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• It is curious to reflect, for example, upon the remarkable legend of the Philosopher's Stone, one of the oldest and most universal beliefs, the origin of which, however far back we penetrate into the records of the past, we do not probably trace its real source.

  Frederick Soddy

  Real, Past, Example

  Frederick Soddy (2004). “The Interpretation of Radium and the Structure of the Atom”, p.182, Courier Corporation

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• The first thing I think of when I hear the name of Lucille Ball is a Hollywood legend. I have fond memories of growing up at her house, but she was a different person off the set than she was on the set.

  Keith Thibodeaux

  Growing Up, Memories, Thinking

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• The Aztecs believe they started up in what's now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are now, in Mexico City. That's a weird legend.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Believe, Years, Cities

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• In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.

  Karl Liebknecht

  Believe, Struggle, Mean

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• Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.

  Enid Nemy

  Glasses, Office, Architecture

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• I'm thankful that I have lived long enough to become a legend, and I hope I deserve it.

  Ralph Stanley

  Long, Thankfulness, Enough

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• A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative sequence of events in tribal history made by the natives themselves.

  Edward Sapir

  Age, Events, Information

  Edward Sapir, David Goodman Mandelbaum (1985). “Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality”, p.395, Univ of California Press

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• I think it's silly for anyone to think you could write under the influence, but if they'd like to think that, I'd like to keep the legend alive. Maybe I was under the influence when I wrote Jesus' Son and I just didn't know it.

  Denis Johnson

  Jesus, Silly, Writing

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• I'm a legend in this sport. If you don't believe me, ask me

  Bobby Heenan

  Sports, Believe, Wwe

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• Every craggy and gnarled tree has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.

  Douglas Hyde

  Tree, Strange

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