Legends Quotes - Page 20

• Tennis legend Bjorn Borg appeared in a Swedish TV ad urging Swedes to have more sex to solve the country's falling birth rate. America can help. This is a perfect opportunity to name Jesse Jackson ambassador to Sweden.

  Argus Hamilton

  Country, Sex, Fall

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• The life lessons taught by John Wooden have become legend. Here's a collection of some of the greatest 'Woodenisms.'

  John Wooden

  Life Lesson, Lessons, Taught

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• I felt it would to add a great deal to my legend for eccentricity.

  Roger Ebert

  Add, Deals, Eccentricity

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• My goal in this music business is to be here as long as I'm alive. I want my music to be here. I want to be the Michael Jackson and the Prince of hip-hop. I want to be a legend. I want to change the world. I want to give them songs that mean something.

  Petey Pablo

  Song, Mean, Long

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• I really like John Legend as an artist and as a person. As well as Lyfe Jennings. Jeezy is good people as well. I like to interview Nick Cannon. He always has something interesting to say. I still enjoy talking to Jay-Z or Nas which was weird since we had so much history. I also enjoyed talking to the Mayor of Detroit as politicians because they need to hear the hip hop side of the community that they don't hear from on a regular basis.

  MC Serch

  Artist, Talking, People

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• In one way or another, I always marked my pictures. But there were times when I put my signature on the back of the canvas. All my works from the cubist period, until about 1914, have my name and the date on the back side of the stretcher. I know someone spread the story that in Céret, Braque and I decided not to sign our pictures anymore. But that's just a legend!

  Pablo Picasso

  Names, Signatures, Stories

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• Favorite books and authors while growing up - I'd need a book to list them all. For the sake of brevity: Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, Victor Hugo, world's mythology, the Arthurian legends. And the unabridged dictionary. And they're still my favorites. They get better each time I read them.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Growing Up, Book, Get Better

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.

  John Berger

  Soul, Alive, Cicadas

  John Berger (2012). “G. John Berger”, p.197, A&C Black

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• The urbanized life has lead to the destruction of the legends.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Destruction

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• [Washington had won] a war for independence and then gone home. [He embodied] the legend of the Roman who returned to his plow after saving his country.

  Richard Brookhiser

  Country, War, Home

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• By legend and perhaps by nature philosophers are more accustomed to the armchair than the workbench.

  Ian Hacking

  Philosopher, Armchairs, Accustomed

  Ian Hacking (1983). “Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science”, p.136, Cambridge University Press

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• Ergo, it is not St. George who is the patron saint of England, but Set of the Hyksos. In general terms whenever the code term "red" is used in the Old Testament, it denotes the Hyksos dynasty. Connected to the Order of the Garter, is the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, formed in 1818. Aditionally, legend has it that the senior members of the Merovingian dynasty of France (founders of the Knights Templar) had birthmarks in the shape of a red cross.

  Michael Tsarion

  Senior, Order, Knights

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• My fashion is my most prized possession for two reasons: 1) because it is a visualization of all the hard work I've put in to get where I am today; 2) because it is a legend to the encyclopedia of my life. It is exactly what I've aimed to seep into the artistic consciousness of people all over the world - that life is an art form.

  Lady Gaga

  Fashion, Art, Hard Work

  "Lady Gaga On Love and Lies". Harper’s Bazaar Interview, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 5, 2014.

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• I want to be a legend, like Celine Dion.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Want, Celine

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• I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters, the days of my life, already lived, and held like a legend, and understood.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Dark, Mind, Letters

  Rainer Maria Rilke, Anita Barrows, Joanna Macy (1996). “Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

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• I am a Christian…so that I do not expect ‘history’ to be anything but a ‘long defeat’ — though it contains (and in a legend may contain more clearly and movingly) some samples or glimpses of final victory.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Faith, Christian, Long

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.255, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• At the heart of every legend there is a grain of truth.

  Michael Scott

  Heart, Grain

  Michael Scott (2012). “The First Codex”, p.89, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Laistrygonians. Cannibals. Northern Giants. Sasquatch legend. Yep, yep. They are not birds. Not birds of North America.

  Rick Riordan

  America, Bird, Giants

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• I think Eros should be dirty. In Greek legend, as I'm sure you are aware, he fell in love with the minor deity Psyche. It was the Greek way of saying that, in spite of what it may believe, Love pursues the Soul, not the body; the Erotic desires the Psychic. If Love was clean and wholesome he wouldn't lust after Psyche.

  Stephen Fry

  Believe, Dirty, Thinking

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• Here in the trees it was much easier to believe the absurdities that embarrassed me indoors. Nothing had changed in this forest for thousands of years, and all the myths and legends of a hundred different lands seemed much more likely in this green haze than they had in my clear-cut bedroom. Bella Swan Stephenie Meyer

  Stephenie Meyer

  Believe, Cutting, Swans

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• I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore.

  Eric Kripke

  Urban Legends, Obsession, Lifelong

  "TV.com Q&A: Supernatural creator Eric Kripke". Interview with Tim Surette, www.tv.com. January 10, 2008.

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• We are all susceptible to the pull of viral ideas. Like mass hysteria. Or a tune that gets into your head that you keep humming all day until you spread it to someone else. Jokes. Urban legends. Crackpot religions. Marxism. No matter how smart we get, there is always this deep irrational part that makes us potential hosts for self-replicating information.

  Neal Stephenson

  Smart, Urban Legends, Self

  "Snow Crash". Book by Neal Stephenson, 1992.

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• For three years between 16 and 19 I was the opening-act-for-the-opening-act-for-the-opening-act, you know? And then I was on tour with Ice-T, Stetsasonic, EPMD, Sir Mix-a-Lot--legends--and went on to sell 160 million records. It still baffles me.

  Vanilla Ice

  Years, Ice, Three

  "The GQ+A: Vanilla Ice". Interview with Nate Erickson, www.gq.com. April 5, 2013.

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• A legend - now I am like a unicorn.

  Jean Giraud

  Unicorn

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• Men have to have heroes, but no man can ever be as big as the need, and so a legend grows around a grain of truth, like a pearl.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Hero, Men, Needs

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

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