Donovan Bailey Quotes
In running, I can internalize that intensity. I can handle it because it's me and I'm coming back in the next race. I'm always ready for the next race.
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.
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I think many people are finding things I do very funny and strange.
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I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.
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Real obsession needs an unconscious motivation behind it.
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At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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We have a choice - we can both think and feel, using our heads and our hearts.
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Well, I'm not a critic, I'm just a worker. So, I'm always grateful for anything the critics say - good or bad.
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I'm going to say my favorite thing is to eat salads, and I'll be like the altar boy.
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We have to understand that content is king now. And it doesn't matter what the source of the content and where it's coming from, as long as it is workable.
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I haven't looked for a golf ball since mulligans were free, which was a law I passed in 1995.
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I love acting but I also love writing, especially comedy.
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I've been the best player on every team that I played on, so if I can't be the poster child of your team, then what else is it? It's got to be a black-white issue. Every white player I know who's the best player on their team is the poster child of that team.
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I'm terrible about people wanting to take pictures with me. I'm a giant baby about it. They treat you like a cartoon. There's nothing you can do except make light of it. That's if I'm in the mood – sometimes I get superbummed.
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I’m not a particularly ideological person. There’s things, some values I feel passionately about.
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When my son, James, was doing homework for school, he would have five or six windows open on his computer, Instant Messenger was flashing continuously, his cell phone was constantly ringing, and he was downloading music and watching the TV over his shoulder. I don’t know if he was doing any homework, but he was running an empire as far as I could see, so I didn’t really care.
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Anytime something starts to feel like a popularity contest or not about the music, I'd rather just not be involved. I'm not a big high-fiver. That really gets to people around me when we have a No. 1 or something big happen. I'm not a big, 'Let's go have a party about it!'
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You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it's a role that's underwritten, where the character has no personality at all. And they need a character actor who can fill it in.
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We ourselves are the last to notice that we are not making any headway. It is brought to our notice from the outside; former students suddenly emerge as our superiors. As we grow older, the respect we receive diminishes: the disproportion between our age and our position becomes evident, first to other people and finally to ourselves. Then it is time to retreat.
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In running, I can internalize that intensity. I can handle it because it's me and I'm coming back in the next race. I'm always ready for the next race.
