Usain Bolt Quotes
I think they have not learned over the years that the more you talk, the more I will want to beat you.
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I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
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My dad was one of four children. His three siblings were female, and he loved and protected them.
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We are the only ones who really can care about the preservation Foreigners who come to excavate, maybe some of them care about preservation, but the majority care about discoveries.
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I really think that in the media world that we live in now, especially for writers, it has to be a conversation. With very few exceptions, it can't be this one-way, 'Here I am on the mountaintop preaching to all of you great unwashed readers in hopes of saving you.' It doesn't work that way.
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I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.
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The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.
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I've lived in New York for a really long time.
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One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
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The craft Emmys are kind of the kids' table at Thanksgiving. You're not really invited to the big dance. It's still really, really exciting, and the statue still counts.
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One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It's an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.
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I am insecure. If you ask me, everybody is.
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When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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Brick-and-mortar at the end of the day matters because viral is great, but it comes and goes as fast.
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'Air' is very placeless - it's set in many different countries, and much of the story is about going places rather than being places. 'Air' is about travelers, and I'm a chronic traveler.
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It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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I've been a war reporter and a human rights defender. A professor and a columnist. A diplomat and - by far most thrillingly - a mother. And what I've learned from all these experiences is that any change worth making is going to be hard. Period.
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When I was 12 years old, I went to swim in a lake, and I almost died in that lake because the water was too deep - much deeper than I thought.
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I miss aspects of being in the Arab world - the language - and there is a tranquility in these cities with great rivers. Whether it's Cairo or Baghdad, you sit there and you think, 'This river has flown here for thousands of years.' There are magical moments in these places.
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I never really want to repeat myself, obviously, but even if I do, it's because it is a choice.
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I think they have not learned over the years that the more you talk, the more I will want to beat you.
