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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• Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.

  Hans Arp

  Technology, Men, Essence

  "Arp on Arp: poems, essays, memories". p. 231, 1972.

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• Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Rumor, Literature, Nobody Knows

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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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• I'm also getting an Ovation Legend, because I like them so much.

  Mark Knopfler

  Ovation

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• As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember.

  Neil Armstrong

  Memories, Boys, Ohio

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• As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture; no one sees their educational power.

  Douglas Hyde

  Educational, Passing Away, Culture

  Douglas Hyde (1986). “Language, lore, and lyrics: essays and lectures”, Irish Academic Pr

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• How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?

  Tavis Smiley

  Growing Up, Guy, Shadow

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• If it's a role like this one, an actual live person, a legend, there's lots of material laid out.

  David Strathairn

  Roles, Materials, Persons

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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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• My mother's life had been destroyed by the Garland legend.

  Lorna Luft

  Mother, Garlands, Destroyed

  Lorna Luft (2015). “Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir”, p.339, Simon and Schuster

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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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• I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

  Francis Bacon

  Believe, Mind, Atheism

  Essays "Of Atheism" (1625)

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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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• Legend has it that when God created me, he gave me a big distinctive voice, a lot of boldness and no heart.

  Ethel Merman

  Heart, Voice, Bigs

  Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group

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• I would really, really, really like to be a legend like Madonna. Madonna knows what to do next, and when she's performing, the audience is just in awe of her.

  Britney Spears

  Fear, Next, Performing

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

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

  Bette Davis

  Inspiration, Coffins, Way

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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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• Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

  James A. Baldwin

  Truth, Roots, Literature

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• I have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and player.

  Bill Walton

  Player, Who I Am, Lakers

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