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Race Quotes


"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."


"The thing about it is, all those races we lost, we won this race together. We won it as a team."
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"I started 20 years without missing a race and ESPN started broadcasting on the air waves."


"Believe me, you lose more than a gallon of fluids during a race. You could lose between six and 10 pounds during a race, depending on hot it is."
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"Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race."


"The stronger Hillary is, the weaker she is. The more she seems like a likely presidential winner, the more difficult the senate race becomes in New York. It's perfect."


"I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them."
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"We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race."
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"I don't know that the best way to approach it is to try and keep up. When you're doing that, you're setting yourself into a one-dimensional sort of race basically."
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"The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race."


"It was five years since I'd won a race, so I was a bit bewildered."


"I think we should all come together, and that race and color or social demographics really don't matter."
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"It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs."
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"I'm supposed to relax and concentrate on the image of myself out there skating my race."


"She looked out and saw a tall and comely woman beckoning to her. Susannah's first look at Mia in the flesh astounded her, because the chap's mother was *white.* Apparently Odetta-that-was now had a Caucasian side to her personality and how that must frost Detta Walker's racially sensitive butt!"


"A 'white' kid that asks too many questions is called 'curious.' A 'black' kid that asks too many questions is called 'forward.'"


"Growing up I sometimes imagined that for Christ's return perhaps He would appear as 'Black Jesus' to white people and 'White Jesus' to black people just to screw with the racists."
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