Chris Cleave Quotes
I think that there's something extremely beautiful about the Olympic ideal and its motto - 'Swifter, higher, stronger' - it's such a beautiful motto, and it celebrates everything which is the antithesis of death and dissolution and entropy.
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I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
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I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.
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The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.
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Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny.
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All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
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When you're with your club team, every week you have a performance to judge. But when you're with the national team, it's a little different because you might not play for three or four months at a time. Things change constantly.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.
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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
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Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.
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There are different types of bullying; one of the biggest ones out there right now is cyberbullying. I had the privilege of filming an 'Austin & Ally' episode centered on cyberbullying, how it can get out of control, the ups and downs that you feel, and how to deal with it.
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I've always danced. I've always been around it.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.
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I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.
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The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it's been pretty humdrum ever since.
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I'm not a guy to go in the studio and spend months, let alone years, like some people do. I cannot even be in the studio for a month, it will drive me nuts.
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As one former prisoner put it in speaking to his fellow citizens, 'Politics is your job. It’s not only for the politicians.' And we have an expression in the United States that the most important office in a democracy is the office of citizen - not President, not Speaker, but citizen.
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Virtue alone has majesty in death.
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I had a go at changing history - maybe not all by myself - I fought at the battle of Normandy, I slogged through the Ardennes, and I celebrated the liberation of Paris on the streets with beautiful French girls throwing flowers at me. I said good-bye to my first true love and discovered what I really wanted to do with my life.
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I think that there's something extremely beautiful about the Olympic ideal and its motto - 'Swifter, higher, stronger' - it's such a beautiful motto, and it celebrates everything which is the antithesis of death and dissolution and entropy.
