Usain Bolt Quotes

Unfortunately, I don't usually get to see much outside the Olympics as I compete almost every day. I have been to Rio a few times and got a tour of the sites. It is a spectacular city.

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• For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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  • Tax
  • Benefit

• I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
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  • Mother

• To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I'd say, 'Your mom would love a painting of you!' A salesman! I'd hawk paintings.

  

  Taylor Negron
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• On a personal level, I love the idea of hosting an awards show. I think that sounds like kind of a fun thing to do.

  

  Zachary Levi
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• I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.

  

  Sam Heughan
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• Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

  

  J. Paul Getty
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• I can't even be around children. It's a problem. My ovaries start screaming.

  

  Odette Annable
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• Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Country
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• When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• I think I've developed, as many people do, this sense of, 'Don't say the wrong thing, or else people will point at you and laugh.'

  

  Taylor Swift
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• There's a great danger in making this seem more important than it is, this whole Free Cinema thing.

  

  Karel Reisz
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• I love to go all out - once I start doing my makeup, I kind of tend to do a lot of it. So like foundation, contour, highlight, eyeliner, shadow, lashes, lipstick - everything! But I really, really love my contours.

  

  Zara Larsson
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• Like at home, I don't wear heels. But everywhere else I go, I wear heels.

  

  Nastia Liukin
  • Home
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• My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
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• It is a big responsibility to headline on pay-per-view.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
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• In 2010, I was doing pretty well. I was going to go to graduate school.

  

  Cam
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• I tend to stay with the panic. I embrace the panic.

  

  Larry David
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• For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.

  

  Adam Duritz Matt Malley
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• My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Money
  • Lost
  • City

• First time we played in New York was in 2013. It was all very eye-opening. A very bright lights, big-city sort of vibe, and we played the Mercury Lounge.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Time
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• I have visited many countries, and have been in cities without number, yet never did I enter a town which could not produce ten or twelve little great men; all fancying themselves known to the rest of the world, and complimenting each other upon their extensive reputation.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • World
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• I am very, very competitive and ambitious. I would definitely fight hard for a role I believed in.

  

  Edward Furlong

• Unfortunately, I don't usually get to see much outside the Olympics as I compete almost every day. I have been to Rio a few times and got a tour of the sites. It is a spectacular city.

  

  Usain Bolt
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