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"No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you."
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"I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life with all the conveniences to make it so."
Life
"In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best."
Sports
"Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown Wilmington, North Carolina."
Being
"Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay tops."
Work
"I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me."
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"No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you."
Accomplishment
"Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown."
Being
"In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are."
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"Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81."
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"Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference."
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"I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger."
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"The greatest feeling of accomplishment for me is the fact that I was an athlete who was somewhat disabled."
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"I can now successfully drive a stick. That's a huge accomplishment."
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"Getting a degree, being on Sesame Street... those were like real accomplishments to me."
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"My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you."
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"Being varied is something I do instinctively and naturally. I feel a tremendous sense of accomplishment."
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"As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along."
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"There is something very intriguing about, for example, the sense of accomplishment that a small child has, which you might be able to reduce to aggression and libido, but which might also have some independent existence."
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