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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• You will not find the treasure of your Personal Legend unless you want to live that Legend.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Personal Legend

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• The only job you have in life is to recognize and honor your personal legend

  Paulo Coelho

  Jobs, Honor, Personal Legend

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• Sometimes a legend that endures for centuries... endures for a reason.

  Dan Brown

  Everything Happens For A Reason, Lasts, Sometimes

  Dan Brown (2010). “The Lost Symbol Illustrated edition”, p.144, Random House

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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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• The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin

  Bette Davis

  Inspiration, Coffins, Way

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• According to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but are preserved until the end of time.

  Grazia Deledda

  Christmas, Dust, Body

  "1,500 Greetings And Quotes For All Occasions. Sayings, Phrases And Best Wishes For Birthday, Mother's Day, Easter, Christmas, Valentine's Day, Wedding, Thanksgiving And More". Book by Emmie Marina Brunswick, April 30, 2014.

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• I want to make it faster than anyone has ever made it before. I'd like to be a legend by the time I'm 25

  Bobby Darin

  Want, Made, Faster

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• People are always asking me what it's like to be Judy Garland's daughter. It's hard to be a legend's child.

  Lorna Luft

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.

  Salman Rushdie

  Reality, Facts, Sometimes

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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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• 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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• In this financial year we will be spending at least $1.5 billion on foreign aid and we cannot be sure that this money will be properly spent, as corruption and mismanagement in many of the recipient countries are legend.

  Pauline Hanson

  Country, Years, Financial

  "Revisit Pauline Hanson's infamous maiden speech". www.sbs.com.au. July 19, 2016.

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• Jackie Robinson is a true legend.

  Sidney Poitier

  Jackie

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• I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire.

  Roy Orbison

  Funny, May, Helping

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

  Bobby Heenan

  Sports, Believe, Wwe

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• Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends.

  Kenneth Anger

  Glowing, America, Generations

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• They do not depend upon mere legends and myths. They are not predicated on the false conception that the Emperor is divine and that the Japanese people are superior to other races.

  Hirohito

  Race, People, Divine

  Address denying his divinity, 1 Jan. 1946

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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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• All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.

  John Boorman

  Stories, Behavior, Myth

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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 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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• An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.

  Walter Bagehot

  Exaggeration Is, Interesting, Vices

  Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot (1858). “The National Review”, p.463

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