Usain Bolt Quotes
There's a lot of great Olympians, but for me, I try to prove myself as one of the best - and that's the key thing.
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The people I am most interested in are the ones on the edge of losing everything and falling into the last bit of despair. I'm trying to write about how people exist on that edge and how they can come back.
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My wife and I were both very engaged in trying to defeat Trump. We knocked on doors in three states.
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I'm trying to find the balance and do, like, 'Spanglish' music or some songs in Spanish and others in English or do a translation.
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The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.
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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
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If you're trying too hard to be the girl next door, you're not going to be.
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One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions.
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A fantasy of mine is to do a podcast that's Marcel Marceau and I, and you only hear me laughing at him and trying to figure out what he's doing.
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I've gone back and forth with fine-tuning the kind of conditioning I'm doing. Sometimes trying to shed weight and getting leaner and sometimes trying to pack on a little more muscle.
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I'm always trying to learn and grow, so my diet has, over the years, evolved.
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I'm not trying to be the next Dave Grohl or Phil Collins.
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I'm just glad Open tennis is here. It's great for the game. That's more important.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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I first fell in love with music when I was a little boy. When I first heard music, I felt the beauty in it. Then, being able to tap along on a table top and box was great, but my favorite thing to do was to watch records spin. I would almost get hypnotized by it. These things are what drew me in initially.
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In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.
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I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian.
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With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
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I've seen a couple white girls coming to my concerts wearing head wraps, and I think they look so cute. It's kind of sad to see that people are really into separation, trying to separate everybody and making a clear division of 'us against you,' even with fashion. That sucks. It's not the way the world is supposed to be.
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Great songs come out of people's bedrooms; they come out of studios; there's no formula for it.
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Economics works great for planning your life when you don't have a work passion, since we tend to assume that your job delivers only money and you trade off job hours with leisure hours. If you think your job will just be a job, pick one that pays well per hour and leaves you some time off, even if the activity of the job is boring.
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When you're a standup comic, you get up and you try stuff, and you're always kind of seeing how far you can push things.
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I'd rather starve than not have what I really want to eat. I'm good at preparation.
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I loved school, I loved putting on my uniform and doing homework every day. I was one of those good students that the teachers liked. I guess that's got to be a pretty nerdy, geeky part of me.
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There's a lot of great Olympians, but for me, I try to prove myself as one of the best - and that's the key thing.
