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Extracurricular Activities Rock! Quote from Mike Ditka
Extracurricular Activities Rock! Quote- “Success is about having, excellence is about being. Success is about having money and fame, but excellence is being the best you can be.” –Mike Ditka (1939-), a former American football NFL player, television commentator, and coach. Ditka coached the Chicago Bears for 11 years and New Orleans Saints for three years. Ditka and Tom Flores are the only two people to win Super Bowls as a player, an assistant coach, and a head coach.
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Extracurricular Activities Rock! Quote from Stevie Nicks
Extracurricular Activities Rock! Quote- “It was my 16th birthday – my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do – write songs and sing them to people.” –Stevie Nicks (1948-), an American singer-songwriter, best known for her work with Fleetwood Mac and an extensive solo career, which collectively have produced over forty Top 50 hits and sold over 140 million albums. She has been noted for her ethereal visual style and symbolic lyrics
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Extracurricular Activities Rock! Quote from Ray Charles
Extracurricular Activities Rock! Quote- “I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.” –Ray Charles(1930-2004), an American musician who was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm and blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings . He also helped racially integrate country and pop music during the 1960s. Charles additionally was one of the first African-American musicians to be given artistic control by a mainstream record company. Frank Sinatra called Charles “the only true genius in show business.”
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Extracurricular Activities Rock! Quote from Picabo Street
Extracurricular Activities Rock! Quote- “When someone tells me the is only one way to do things, it always lights a fire under my butt. My instant reaction is, I’m gonna prove you wrong.” –Picabo Street (1971-), a retired American alpine ski racer. She won gold medals in the 1998 Winter Olympics and the World Championships, along with three other Olympic and World Championship medals. She also won World Cup downhill season titles in 1995 and 1996, the first American woman to do so. Street was inducted into the National Ski Hall of Fame in 2004.
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Extracurricular Activities Rock! Quote from Charlie Parker
Extracurricular Activities Rock! Quote- “Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. ” –Charlie Parker (1920-1955), an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Parker, with Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, is widely considered to have been one of the most influential jazz musicians.
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Extracurricular Activities Rock! Quote from Bill Bradley
Extracurricular Activities Rock! Quote- “Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it.” –Bill Bradley (1943-), an American hall of fame basketball player, Rhodes scholar, and former three-term Democratic U.S. Senator from New Jersey. He ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic Party’s nomination for President in the 2000 election.
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