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I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected. ↗

— Barry White

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I'm proud of the U.S.A. We've done some amazing things. To wear our flag in the Olympics is an honor. ↗

— Shaun White

#amazing things #done #flag #honor #i

I've always been under the impression that it would be such a bummer to be in a peaceful place like Hawaii or the tropics and be stressed about catching waves. ↗

— Shaun White

#always #been #bummer #catching #hawaii

If skating got into the Olympics, I would be tempted to hold off on shredding for a year and just skate, to make that my new goal. In that sport, I'm still the underdog. ↗

— Shaun White

#got #hold #i #into #just

I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it. ↗

— Theodore White

#american #american politics #anything #arts #cannot

When I'm on planes, I'd talk to people and I'd tell them I compete in the X Games. Some would know what it was, but maybe half didn't. But everyone knows about the Olympics. They're really like the X Games for the world! ↗

— Shaun White

#compete #everyone #games #half #i

You show up at the Olympics, and you're no longer you; you're an American Olympian. You're part of this greater whole, and the individual doesn't matter. ↗

— Shaun White

#greater #individual #longer #matter #olympian

Politics in America is the binding secular religion. ↗

— Theodore White

#binding #politics #religion #secular

With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind. ↗

— Theodore White

#american politics #behind #end #leaves #logic

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#business #exhausted #finally #found #nature