Emil Zatopek Quotes
To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.
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If there's anyone in my lifetime who deserves honor it is Billy Graham. I think he is the most significant figure since the apostles.
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I don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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The first wave of the Internet was really about data transport. And we didn't worry much about how much power we were consuming, how much cooling requirements were needed in the data centers, how big the data center is in terms of real estate. Those were almost afterthoughts.
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But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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I think 'Rockstar' is more dear to me than any of my other films.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
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'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and happy that now think of themselves as poor and become dissatisfied with their lives. What worries me is outsiders trying to impose their values and materialism on the Piraha.
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If we work so hard and put all the money in the hospital to buy medicine - it will be a disaster. Why we should work? So without a healthy environment of this Earth, no matter how much money you make, no matter how wonderful you are, you have a bad disaster.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.
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Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.
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With my boyfriend, we can make sexist jokes to each other because we know it's absolutely not true. If I get home from a long day and he says: 'Go on, get in the kitchen,' it's funny because we know it's not our lives.
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It was the first time in her life that she had put her faith in God’s protection to the test, and it had not failed her.
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I think if you're gonna do something as silly and lighthearted as entertainment, then why not be interesting when you're doing it?
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I've always been a bad flyer, but I don't let it get in the way of travelling. I love stepping off the plane and feeling the heat and the foreign smell of being somewhere different.
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To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.
