#gh

In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan. ↗

— John Thorn

#arose #challenge #clan #community #might

When Jim Irsay called me five years ago, he told me, 'I want you to be our coach and help us win the Super Bowl.' He told me, 'We are going win it the right way. We are going to win it with great guys; win it with class and dignity. We are going to win it in a way that will make Indianapolis proud.' ↗

— Tony Dungy

#bowl #called #class #coach #dignity

As humans we like to laugh at our fears, we like to whistle in the dark. ↗

— Jeff Dunham

#fears #humans #laugh #like #our

Lord, I'm going to hold steady on to You and You've got to see me through. ↗

— Harriet Tubman

#got #hold #i #lord #me

In 1980, when I graduated from high school, my goal was to be on 'The Tonight Show' with Johnny Carson at least once before our ten-year class reunion. Our class reunion was in June of 1990, and I was on 'The Tonight Show' in April 1990, so I made it by a few months. ↗

— Jeff Dunham

#before #carson #class #few #goal

I never sort of thought of myself as a comedy writer, by nature. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#i #myself #nature #never #sort

I always thought the saddest feeling in life is when you're dancing in a really joyful way and then you hit your head on something. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#dancing #feeling #head #hit #i

I always imagined that having a baby is something that I'm going to keep in a private place, but maybe my curse is that all I'm going to want to do is tell everybody about what my birth process was like and what my children's nightmares are. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#always #baby #birth #children #curse

I quit acting when I was 11 because I was cast as a bouncing ball in 'Alice in Wonderland,' and I felt slighted and wounded. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#alice #ball #because #bouncing #cast

I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#journalist #novelist #thought #wanted