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“To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten. The first 'second' is when you come out of the blocks. The next is when you look up and take your first few strides to attain gain position. By that time the race is actually about half over. The final 'second' - the longest slice of time in the world for an athlete - is that last half of the race, when you really bear down and see what you're made of. It seems to take an eternity, yet is all over before you can think what's happening.”

Source: I Have Changed

“The metric system was designed to get people to enter charity runs.Do you think you would go run a 3.1 mile race? No, but if somebody says, hey, 5 km. You go, 5km sounds pretty impressive.”

People Ifs Thinking Running Sound Race Charity Miles Hey Impressive Metrics Metric System

Author:Greg Gutfeld

“In Las Vegas we all know that it's the croupiers who win. At the race track, it's those who control the handle who win. State lotteries, does anybody think the participants in the lottery win? No. The state wins.”

Thinking Knows Doe States Winning Race Track Handle Vegas Las Vegas Participants Lottery Race Track

Author:John C. Bogle

“"X-Men" is not really about mutants; it's about humanity. I think it's about the human race. We're an absolutely destructive race. It seems that we can't seem to get beyond this level of tribalism that has been around for thousands of years. Anything we fear we tend to destroy.”

Thinking Men Years Humans Has Beens Seems Humanity Levels Race Human Race Destructive X Men Tribalism Mutants

Author:Michael Fassbender

“I love doing things that are titillating. I think race can be very funny, and I think I'm very comfortable discussing it and bringing it up.”

Thinking Race Comfortable Discussing

Author:Michael Rapaport

“Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.”

People Thinking Want Action Black Race Comedy Conversation Genre Asian Latino Thrillers

Author:Mara Brock Akil

“Sex is God's joke on the human race ... if we didn't have sex to make us ridiculous, She would have had to think up something else instead.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Sex Race Jokes Ridiculous Human Race

Book:Parachutes & kisses

Source: Parachutes & kisses

“I think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.”

Thinking Humans Doe Stars Race Destiny Embrace Command Human Race

Book:Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays: The Drinking Gourd/What Use Are Flowers?

Source: Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays: The Drinking Gourd/What Use Are Flowers?

“I think that the glorious thing about the human race is that it does change the world -- constantly. The world or 'life' may seem to more often overwhelm the human being's capacity for struggling against being overwhelmed which is remarkable and exhilarating.”

Thinking World Humans May Doe Seems Human Beings Race Struggle Capacity Human Race Glorious Changing The World Remarkable Overwhelmed Exhilarating Being Overwhelmed

Book:Les blancs: the collected last plays of Lorraine Hansberry

Source: Les blancs: the collected last plays of Lorraine Hansberry

“The very thing about people that makes the human race interesting is also the thing that makes it so hard to get anything done without the most horrible confusions: no two people think exactly the same way about anything.”

People Thinking Way Humans Two Hard Done Interesting Race Horrible Confusion Human Race

Book:Letters of Katherine Anne Porter

Source: Letters of Katherine Anne Porter

“My father couldn't speak English when he went to the first grade and I had to work in a factory over Christmas and summer vacations. And I think that's the American way and one of the things that excites me about this race is that pretty much everything I've done I've started at the bottom and been able to finish at the top.”

Thinking Way Firsts Done Able Father Speak Race Summer Bottom Grades Vacation Factories Speak English Summer Vacation

Author:George Pataki

“There is a hint of despair in the cry of 'I told you so,' an element of disappointment in the apparent satisfaction when idols turn out to have clay feet. The human race, when it thinks it has proved that no one is superior, is partly gratified and partly depressed.”

Thinking Humans Turns Race Feet Cry Despair Elements Disappointment Satisfaction Superiors Human Race Idols Clay Hints Told You So

Author:Alice Thomas Ellis

“When I think of our condition, my heart is heavy. I see men of my own race treated as outlaws and driven from country to country, or shot down like animals.”

Thinking Men Heart Country My Own Animal Race Conditions My Heart Shots Heavy Driven Treated Outlaw

Author:Chief Joseph

“a white person who claims to have no impediment of vision in this country is not, I think, telling the whole truth. And when it comes to race relations, not telling the whole truth about the fog one inhabits slows down the work of groping forward.”

Thinking Persons Country Whole White Race Vision Racism Claims Relation Fog Slow Down Race Relations Impediments Whole Truth

Author:Naomi Wolf

“... when I am really alone some power seems to grow in me. ... Conjugality made me think of a three-legged race, where two people cannot go fast and keep tripping each other because their two legs are tied together.”

People Thinking Made Two Seems Together Three Grows Race Legs Tied Tripping

Book:Me

Source: Me

“I have always secretly felt that what mankind should be in an ideal sense is that mixture of people and races. I really believe in it. I don't think there is anything sacred in the integrity of race, white or black.”

People Thinking Should Believe Felt Black White Race Mankind Integrity Ideals Sacred Mixtures

Book:A poetic equation: conversations between Nikki Giovanni and Margaret Walker

Source: A poetic equation: conversations between Nikki Giovanni and Margaret Walker

“They have poisoned the Thames and killed the fish in the river. A little further development of the same wisdom and science will complete the poisoning of the air, and kill the dwellers on the banks. I almost think it is the destiny of science to exterminate the human race.”

Thinking Humans Littles Science Race Destiny Air Development Rivers Scientist Environmental Fishes Human Race Pollution Poisoning Dwellers Thames

Author:Thomas Love Peacock

“I think that will only really change when the human races begins to suffer some of the extremely severe consequences of climate change which may be some decades ahead. They will then realise, as we have with the financial crisis, that we are up against the wall and hitting the buffers and we have got to change.”

Thinking Humans May Suffering Race Wall Consequence Crisis Climate Climate Change Financial Decades Human Race Realising Hitting Severe Financial Crisis

Author:Michael Meacher

“Think of the majesty of that moment in this dying world's history, when Jesus Christ declared that to the Christian death was only a sleep. Outside of that small dwelling in Capernaum, a great race of men rushed and toiled as they harassed continents and seas; mighty events marshaled themselves into annals and pageants. What was inside? In one inconspicuous chamber of a now forgotten house, man's Redeemer, unobserved, martyred man's final enemy. There Immanuel subdued death forever.”

“Many think, because your skins are tinged with a sable hue, that you are an inferior race of beings; but God does not consider you as such. ... he hath made all men free and equal. Then why should one worm say to another, 'Keep you down there, while I sit up yonder; for I am better than thou?”

Thinking Men Should Doe Made God Freedom Race Lord Equal Racism Skins Equality African American Inferiors Considering Black Women Worms Equal Rights Hue Anti Racist

Author:Maria W. Stewart

“One of my correspondents has me convinced that the human race would be saved if the world became one huge nudist colony. I keep thinking how much harder it would be to carry concealed weapons.”

Ifs Thinking World Humans Would Be Race Huge Weapons Harder Convinced Saved Human Race Concealed Colony Nudists Concealed Weapons

Author:Cyra McFadden

“The changes in thinking about same-sex marriage have come slowly at first and then in rapid course. If such change is possible in this area, is it also possible in the vexed and sordid realm of race relations?”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Courses Sex Race Areas Relation Realms Rapids Race Relations

Author:Barack Obama

“I just don't feel the whole white guilt and pussy-footing around race issues. I'm completely above all that. I've never worried about what anyone might think of me 'cause I've always believed that the true of heart recognize the true of heart.”

Thinking Feels Heart Whole Might Causes White Race Issues Guilt Worried Always Believe Think Of Me Pussy Race Issues

Author:Quentin Tarantino

“I think the human race needs to think about killing. How much evil must we do to do good?”

Thinking Needs Humans Evil Race Killing Human Race Call Of Duty Modern Warfare Modern Warfare 2

Author:Robert McNamara

“I do believe that in a race, it is naive to think Linux has a hope of making a dent against Microsoft starting from way behind with a fraction of the resources and amateur labor. (I feel the same about Unix.”

Thinking Way Feels Believe Race Behinds Resources Labor Starting Naive Microsoft Fractions Linux Unix

Author:Kenneth P. Thompson

“Most people dont think about race as much as I do. They dont have to.”

People Thinking Race

Author:Chang-Rae Lee

“I think it's sinful to give the audience material it knows already, whether the material is about race relations or the car culture or the depiction and placement of a candy bar.”

Thinking Knows Giving Culture Race Audience Car Materials Relation Bars Candy Race Relations Depiction Placement Candy Bar

Author:Manny Farber

“I am now a member of the private sector. I'm happy. I've got a little foundation. You never say never, but I may have had my last race and that was the Presidential race. I think that you only get one shot.”

Thinking May Littles Lasts Race Members Shots Foundation Presidential Private Sector Never Say Never

Author:Bill Richardson

“We are a people of many races, many faiths, creeds, and religions. I do not think that the men who made the Constitution forbade the establishment of a State church because they were opposed to religion. They knew that the introduction of religious differences into American life would undermine the democratic foundations of this country. What holds for adults holds even more for children, sensitive and conscious of differences. I certainly hope that the Board of Education will think very, very seriously before it introduces this division and antagonism in our public schools.”

“I was thinking one of the great things about fiction is we, as a race, only get to look out of our own eyes at the world. And fiction is a fantastic way of looking out through somebody else's eyes.”

Thinking World Way Looks Eye Race Fiction Great Things Fantastic

Author:Neil Gaiman

“I personally have a great deal of respect for readers. I have a great deal of respect for the human race. I think most people can tell the difference between fiction and fact. I think that the action of writing about something does not condone it. The best thing I can ever hope to do is provide good questions, and I think I do that. I hope I do.”

People Thinking Writing Humans Doe I Can Facts Action Differences Deals Race Fiction Reader Best Things Human Race Good Questions

Author:Neil Gaiman

“I have a power word that I use-when I qualified for the Olympics in 2008, it was fighter. That way when I'm in the race and I get to those dark moments, I can think of the word and it evokes that emotion for me.”

Thinking Way I Can Moments Use Dark Race Emotion Fighter Olympics Qualified Evoke Dark Moments

Author:Kara Goucher

“Affirmative action has been generally cast in terms of race. I think women themselves are not as cognizant of the role affirmative action has played in opening the doors for women.”

Thinking Has Beens Action Term Race Roles Doors Casts Opening Affirmative Action Affirmative Cognizant

Author:Faye Wattleton

“I think I dont really have any expectations; I dont look at the season as a whole - I look at it race by race.”

Thinking Looks Whole Race Expectations Seasons

Author:Casey Stoner

“Don't think about the start of the race, think about the ending.”

Thinking Race

Author:Usain Bolt

“The privilege of privilege is that the terms of privilege are rendered invisible. It is a luxury not to have to think about race, or class, or gender. Only those marginalized by some category understand how powerful that category is when deployed against them.”

Thinking Term Powerful Race Class Privilege Gender Invisible Luxury Categories Marginalized

Author:Michael Kimmel

“I'm glad that it didn't take as long to get Shepard off the ground as it's taken this series. I'd begun to think the Congo would be ahead of us in the space race before Whispering Smith ever got on the air.”

Thinking Long Would Be Space Race Taken Air Series Glad Congo Whispering Space Race

Author:Audie Murphy

“The idea that boxing lends itself to cinema so well is because it's usually a morality play - good against evil, insecurity and triumph, fear strikes out, so the audience can really get drawn into the drama of it. Also, it was sensual and very primal. I think subliminaly we do two things - life is a fight, life is a struggle and we understand that from our early, early, early ancestors, and life is a race.”

“...America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind. We are able to accommodate, at a time, only one national hero; and we demand that that hero shall be uniform and invincible. As a literate people we are preoccupied, neither with the race nor the individual, but with the type. Yesterday, we romanticized the "tough guy;" today, we are romanticizing the underprivileged, tough or tender; tomorrow, we shall begin to romanticize the pure primitive.”

“No race has the last word on culture and on civilization. You do not know what the black man is capable of; you do not know what he is thinking and therefore you do not know what the oppressed and suppressed Negro, by virtue of his condition and circumstance, may give to the world as a surprise.”

Thinking Knows Men World Giving May Lasts Culture Black Race Virtue Conditions Circumstances Civilization Capable Surprise Oppressed Last Words

Author:Marcus Garvey

“Growing up as a black kid with a white father who loves you, who affirms you, who was part of your life is fundamentally different than what black people in my family were subjected to in the 19th century or the 18th century. But unfortunately, it doesn't change the old racial order. I think we need to let the old racial order just stay where it is and not seek to improve upon it. Not try to create more racial categories, because all that does is it makes a race stick around longer.”

“People can relate to horses. Horses, I think, are basically in our genetic history. Horses were part of our culture, part of our collective society, for hundreds of years, and so, the horse is one of the most familiar animals to people of any race or culture or country.”

People Thinking Years Country Culture Animal Race Horse Familiar Relate Collectives

Author:Steven Spielberg

“Black people are just constantly immature in their thinking, undisciplined, and we suffer as a people. This is not about race in the sense that black people got to get something better than whites or Latinos or Asians. This is just basically that we keep complaining about what we don't have and what we can't do, and then, when we get in positions to do stuff, we fight amongst ourselves like savages.”

People Thinking Suffering Fighting Stuff Black Race Position Complaining Black People Savages Latino Something Better Immature Undisciplined

Author:KRS-One

“Communal franchise is wrong in principle and harmful in practice; the time has come in Fiji for all races to get out of the thin water-tight compartments and start thinking in terms of residents of Fiji.”

Thinking Term Water Race Principles Practice Residents Fiji

Author:A. D. Patel

“If there be any man who thinks the ruin of a race of men a small matter, compared with the last decoration and completions of hisown comfort,--who would not so much as part with his ice- cream, to save them from rapine and manacles, I think I must not hesitate to satisfy that man that also his cream and vanilla are safer and cheaper by placing the negro nation on a fair footing than by robbing them.”

Ifs Thinking Men Matter Lasts Nations Race Comfort Fairs Slavery Ice Ruins Cream Ice Cream Cheaper Completion Decoration Robbing Vanilla

Book:The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I've been cursed for delving into the mysteries of life. Perhaps death is sacred, and I've profaned it. Oh, what a wonderful vision it was. I dreamed of being the first to give to the world the secret that God is so jealous of, the formula for life. Think of the power, to create a man. And I did, I did it, I created a man. And who knows, in time I could have trained him to do my will. I could have bred a race, I might even have found the secret of eternal life.”

Thinking Knows Men World Life Giving Firsts Might Found Secret Race Vision Power Wonderful Mystery Eternal Sacred Jealous Formulas Eternal Life Cursed Mystery Of Life Delving

Author:William Hurlbut

“I think music can really affect people's emotions and, when I am about to get into a race car, I definitely listen to music with a good beat - that's when you've got the adrenalin pumping. And the time before you go into a race weekend, you have a lot of emotion and adrenalin, and a lot of focus.”

People Thinking Race Emotion Focus Car Beats Weekend Listening To Music Race Car

Author:Allan McNish

“In my state, on the basis of the separate but equal doctrine, we have made enormous strides over the years in the education of both races. Personally, I think it would have been sounder judgment to allow that progress to continue through the process of natural evolution. However, there is no point crying about spilt milk.”

“Today we face many problems. Some are created essentially by ourselves based on divisions due to ideology, religion, race, economic status, or other factors. Therefore, the time has come for us to think on a deeper level, on the human level, and from that level we should appreciate and respect the sameness of others as human beings.”

Thinking Should Humans Problem Today Faces Human Beings Levels Race Economic Appreciate Deeper Dues Factors Ideology Division Sameness Economic Status

Author:Dalai Lama

“I dont think about race before I start drawing. I think about how to make that mark to fit whatever purpose I need it to fulfill.”

Thinking Needs Purpose Race Fit Mark Drawing

Author:Toyin Odutola

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