To be remembered for all the things that you do and as someone who makes people smile, touches people's lives – that is what should wake you up every single morning.
If you could have a gigantic billboard anywhere, what would it say and why?
We know there are over 380,000 children across the UK today that have never owned a book, children that are in vulnerable environments. That has to change. My books are, and always will be, for every child, even if I have to deliver them myself. We will reach them.
Statement on the launch of the Marcus Rashford Book Club, Sky Sports, 16 November 2020 source ↗
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Siya Kolisi
South Africa international rugby union flanker and captain
Abby Wambach
United States international footballer, 2001–2015
GIVE ME THE RESPECT I'VE EARNED AND GIVE IT TO MY WOLF PACK TOO.
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Barnard College commencement address, Radio City Music Hall, New York, Speakola, 16 May 2018
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John C. Bogle
Founder of The Vanguard Group, 1974
There's the world's work to be done, and there are never enough citizens with determined hearts, courageous character, intelligent minds, and idealistic souls to do it. Yes, our world already has quite enough guns, political platitudes, arrogance, disingenuousness, self-interest, snobbishness, superficiality, war, and the certainty that God is on one side or the other. But it never has enough conscience, nor enough tolerance, idealism, justice, compassion, wisdom, humility, self-sacrifice for the greater good, integrity, courtesy, poetry, laughter, and generosity of substance and spirit. It is these elements that I urge you to carry into your careers, and remember that the great game of life is not about money; it is about doing your best to build the world anew.
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Georgetown University commencement, Georgetown University / johncbogle.com, 18 May 2007
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Jimmy Carter
39th President of the United States, 1977–1981; Governor of Georgia 1971–1975
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
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