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What inspires you to learn?

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Vox, to writers and thinkers, 9 Questions, 2017

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Read by field Everyone Science and medicine 10 Arts and letters 16 Politics and public life 5 Business and finance 3 Technology 4 Sport 2
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Pete Rozelle Commissioner of the National Football League, 1960–1989
It was basically writing. I loved watching sports and writing about them. So I was sports editor of the school paper and I worked weekends at the Long Beach Press Telegram, near my home in southern California. Just primarily an interest in sports, then from that developed the athletic publicity work that I did in school.
Recorded Rancho Santa Fe, California, Academy of Achievement, 15 May 1991 source ↗
Abby Wambach United States international footballer, 2001–2015
the time that I got to spend with my teammates, the learning about life and about different people's beliefs and different people's opinions about things, those are the things that I'll take away. Those are the things that I'm going to value the most about my time spent on the team.
Recorded Terry Gross, Fresh Air Archive, 14 September 2016 source ↗

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