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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• Not every legend is a myth, some are flesh and blood. Some legends walk among us, but they aren’t born, they’re built. Legends are made from iron & sweat, mind and muscle, blood and vision and victory. Legends are champions, they grow, they win, they conquer. There’s a legend behind every legacy, there’s a blueprint behind every legend.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Winning, Blood, Sweat

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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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• 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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• That's how it is with legends. The greater they sound, the more must've got left out.

  Tim Tharp

  Sound, Greater, Left

  Tim Tharp (2008). “Knights of the Hill Country”, p.182, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend.

  Freddie Mercury

  Stars, Rocks, Singers

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

  Salman Rushdie

  Reality, Facts, Sometimes

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• Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends.

  Jim Harrison

  Crazy, Fall, Voice

  "Fictional character: One Stab". "Legends of the Fall", www.imdb.com. December 23, 1994.

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• When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.

  Tecumseh

  Dream, Greatness, Dies

  "Inspire! What Great Leaders Do". Book by Lance Secretan, p. 67, 2004.

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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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• If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.

  Judy Garland

  Lonely, Loneliness, Love You

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• Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.

  Hervey Allen

  Facts, Materials

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• History has its truth; and so has legend hers.

  Victor Hugo

  Truth

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• Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

  H. L. Mencken

  Birthday, Lying, History

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• I can't be a legend yet. I'm not dead.

  Maynard James Keenan

  I Can

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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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• 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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• If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?

  Judy Garland

  Lonely, Being Alone, Ifs

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I played classical as a kid.

  John Legend

  Children, Kids

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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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• He will be beginning a brand new chapter in the Michael Jackson legend.

  LaToya Jackson

  Chapters, Brands, Brand New

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• John legend is a nickname that somebody started calling me a while ago and part of it is 'cos I sound like an old man when I sing.

  John Legend

  Men, Sound, Calling

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• I was always the front man for what I was doing from when I was 6.

  John Legend

  Men, Fronts

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• Robert Morley is a legend in his own lunchtime.

  Rex Harrison

  Lunchtime

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• I do like what Alicia Keys and John Legend are doing. With their music, you keep your clothes on.

  Ben E. King

  Keys, Clothes

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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