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
  • You
  • 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
  • Heart
  • Home
  • 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
  • Money
  • Truth
  • Mom

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

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Promises
  • Commit
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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
  • Business
  • Uncertainty

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

  

  Odette Annable
  • Children
  • Problem
  • Start

• 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
  • Growing
  • Decisions

• 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
  • People
  • Children
  • Book

• 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
  • People
  • Think
  • Laugh

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

  

  Karel Reisz
  • Great
  • Important
  • Free

• 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
  • Like
  • Start
  • Makeup

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

  

  Nastia Liukin
  • Home
  • Like
  • Heels

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

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Orphanage

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

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Responsibility
  • Big

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

  

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

  

  Larry David
  • Embrace
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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
  • Me
  • Mean
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• The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Alone
  • Literature
  • Often

• Don't let the Monday morning quarterbacks stop you from being bold. You've got to set a high bar.

  

  Antonio Villaraigosa
  • High
  • Stop
  • Morning

• My wife and I really, really like each other as well as love each other.

  

  Eric Bana
  • Wife

• I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing.

  

  Mary Oliver

• 'In My Hands,' the title track, is my very first vocal attempt, and I'm not a singer as such. But I've always wanted to express myself vocally on my albums, and I don't really have much of a capability for singing. The strength is in, I think, the lyrics and just speaking. It just comes from inside.

  

  Natalie MacMaster
  • Myself
  • Singing
  • Lyrics

• All conflict can be traced back to someone's feelings getting hurt, don't you think?

  

  Liane Moriarty
  • Hurt
  • Feelings
  • Conflict

• 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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