#petitions

The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in the States, have been cited. It has been said that those petitions were not received. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#cited #house #matter #petitions #proceedings

I went to national piano competitions and did that whole circuit. Then I played professionally to support myself when I moved out to LA. ↗

— Alicia Witt

#competitions #did #i #la #moved

Competitions make me nervous. When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating and not, 'I have to do this to win.' I forget it is a competition. ↗

— Katarina Witt

#competition #competitions #forget #go #i

We never did a lot of weights, but a lot of repetitions. The most I would use doing squats was 300 pounds. ↗

— Eric Heiden

#doing #i #lot #most #never

I've lived nearby since 1981 and probably have averaged one run a week there. That's more than 1,000 repetitions, and I have yet to tire of this course. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#course #i #lived #more #nearby

Professional competitions are overrated. ↗

— Oksana Baiul

#overrated #professional

So I had the opportunity to do what the kids in the Hershey program do, except that the Hershey program lets them do it on such a larger scale, with the regional and national competitions. ↗

— Rafer Johnson

#except #had #hershey #i #kids

I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions. ↗

— Oksana Baiul

#better #compete #competitions #could #exhibitions

The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people. ↗

— Avery Brundage

#creating #education #end #games #itself

I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#bound #constitution #deciding #dictate #house