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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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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I know one business, and that's how to make software.
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If we understood the power of our thoughts, we would guard them more closely.
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I love Olivier Vernon, and I wish he knew how much I appreciate him by just watching him.
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Never send a boy to do a man's work; send a woman.
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The best compliment I ever got in my life came from Chairman Mao of China. When I went there, at a time when nobody wanted to touch China with a 10-foot pole, Mao told me that I'm beautiful because I'm a natural, and he said natural is perfection. So, no character assassination can diminish me and my perfection.
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Nudity in a picture is such a delicate thing, and it is so rarely right. But it can be right if it's done by people with beautiful vision and if it becomes part of the melody of the situation. The body, after all, is a beautiful and secret thing.
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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.
