"To shipbrokers, coal was black gold."

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"The greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal."

Mitch Gaylord, American Athlete

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"You know you can get gaudy with something, and they didn't do that. To me, I think it's very tasteful, well done, with the silver and gold and the engraving. I think it's very tasteful."

Earl Scruggs, American Musician

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"I've spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold."

Charlie Sheen, American Actor

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"I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch."

Woody Allen, American Director

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"Frank Marth also played many characters with us, and like George Petrie, he was worth his weight in gold."

Audrey Meadows, American Actress

Gold, Weight, Worth

"Even when I was very depressed, I could hold on to something. It seems that I have always had that streak of gold that I could hold on to."

Michael Schenker, German Musician

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"I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal."

Dorothy Hamill, American Athlete

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"Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Gold, Praise, Value

"The only way I'm going to win a Gold Glove is with a can of spray paint."

Reggie Jackson, American Athlete

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"I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water."

Neil Young, Canadian Musician

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"When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales."

Nation

"My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it."

Family

"When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would set out together after school across the village green."

Boys

"Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home."

Home

"Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset."

Heart

"Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God?"

Man

"I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible."

Old

"I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself."

Memory

"All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe."

Family

"Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people."

People