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Race Quotes

"If you're running for reelection in the House of Representatives race, you know, it's very important to you that you be on fairly good terms with the local affiliates in the largest market in your area. I mean you don't want to antagonize them."

Robert McChesney, American Critic

Race, Running, Want

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"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."

Audie Murphy, American Soldier

"Accordingly, one race is neither superior nor inferior to another."

Walter Lang, American Director

"This can not be about a race to the bottom."

Alexis Herman, American Public Servant

"The intrusions of the white race and the non- compliance with treaty obligations have been followed by atrocities that could alone satisfy a savage and revengeful spirit."

Nelson A. Miles, American Soldier

"The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged."

Ovid, Roman Poet

"That's our race. That's our playoffs."

Tim Salmon, American Baseball Player

"The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true."

Catharine Beecher, American Educator

Race, Right, Teachers, Want

"Everyone has said very supportive things coming out of D.C. today. We can't wait when the race has begun."

Katherine Harris, American Politician

"When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad."

Constance Baker Motley, American Activist

Race, States, United

"The team came together. We're looking forward to the next race."

John Surtees, English Athlete

"But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem."

Zora Neale Hurston, American Dramatist

"That's what we're striving for, making us a contender in every race."

Dale Earnhardt, American Celebrity

"When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important."

Bill Shoemaker, American Athlete

"My last real race was at the Olympics in Sydney in 2000."

Cathy Freeman, Australian Athlete

"An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of where that race leads in the long run, but strongly motivated by the short-term payoffs."

K. Eric Drexler, American Scientist

Race, Understanding

"If it's a slow race you have to be on your guard. You have to be patient, but I prefer that."

Michael East, American Athlete

"I started 20 years without missing a race and ESPN started broadcasting on the air waves."

Dale Earnhardt, American Celebrity

"Librarians as a race tend to be tedious."

Peter Shaffer, English Playwright

"Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race."

William E. Gladstone, British Leader

Race, Selfishness

"And my point was one I think that you'd agree with, which is there's no room in America for a black racist, a Latino racist, or a white racist, or an Asian racist, or a Native American racist. Now, we're either color blind or we're not color blind."

Newt Gingrich, American Politician

Race, America, Blind, Now

"I was like a race horse, just trying to get into the world."

Joely Fisher, American Actress

Race, Trying, World

"Every race is totally different."

Bill Rodgers, American Athlete

"I've got to win every race."

Dale Earnhardt, American Celebrity

"We're here to win the race. If we get beat, we get beat."

Jerry Moss, American Businessman

"I think the most overused words in our vocabulary in the South are black and white."

Artur Davis, American Politician

Race, Vocabulary, Words

"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."

Michael Andretti, American Athlete

"Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so."

Ida B. Wells, American Activist

"I'm a competitor. I really enjoyed the race more than just going out and running to run."

Shannon Miller, American Athlete

"I never though much about race."

Thelonious Monk, American Musician

"Is the human race a universal constructor?"

David Deutsch, American Scientist

"I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race."

Michael Tippett, English Composer

"Slow and steady wins the race."

Robert Lloyd, English Poet

"I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

"I think he had a wake-up call. It's a different kind of race, and I think maybe he didn't take it quite as seriously as he might have, but you can bet he learned a lot of lessons."

Frank Shorter, American Athlete

"The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried."

Charles Hamilton Houston, American Lawyer

Race, states, United

"You don't really want to load up a whole lot, probably anything more than four hours before the race. I needed something to make me feel full, but I certainly didn't want it to make me feel stuffed."

Eric Heiden, American Athlete

"I didn't miss the rat race, but I kinda missed the rats."

Jerry Nachman, American Journalist

"I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them."

Amanda Beard, American Athlete

"I still favor alternatives to governmental race-based preferences."

Marvin Olasky, American Educator

"Running on different types of racetracks is challenging - not only for the drivers, but even more for the team members who have to make adjustments to the cars before each race."

Michael Andretti, American Athlete

"Up, you mighty race, accomplish what you will."

Marcus Garvey, Jamaican Publisher

"If you want to win a race you have to go a little berserk."

Bill Rodgers, American Athlete

"In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year."

Baron Hill, American Politician

"He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face."

Richard Savage, English Poet

"Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be."

Ian Hacking, Canadian Philosopher

"I'm quite excited to think that I will run the Olympic race here next year."

Hermann Maier, Austrian Athlete

"It has been a long while since the United States had any imperialistic designs toward the outside world. But we have practised within our own boundaries something that amounts to race imperialism."

Wendell Willkie, American Lawyer

Race, states, United, World

"The Indian race are waiting and praying."

Chief Joseph, American Leader

"Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits."

J. Philippe Rushton, Canadian Psychologist

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