Donovan Bailey Quotes
I do a lot of media work, I've been investing and I'm involved with real estate. It's totally different from what I had been doing but I find it challenging and fun. To be honest, I really don't miss the track. I pretty well accomplished what I set out to do and it was time to move on.
Quotes to Explore
-
I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.
-
Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
-
With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style.
-
I actually like to sing on 'Rock Band.' I prefer to take the mic.
-
I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
-
Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.
-
For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
-
I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
-
I've been doing African dance all my life.
-
In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a High Court judge if he were forced to follow the true poetic formula, doing the job for love, being forced into pubs for relief.
-
Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.
-
I've always been drawn to the idea that small choices in our lives could have drastic effects on our future.
-
The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin.
-
I'm not a god - I do bad things.
-
In the Army, because the stakes are so high - right? - you can't just be a yes-man and say, 'Great idea, boss!' if you don't believe it - right? - because lives are at stake. And the commanders that I've worked for, they want frank assessments; they want criticism and feedback.
-
Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
-
Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.
-
The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.
-
Meryl Streep's brilliant, just brilliant. I've been fortunate to do two movies with Meryl. And for an actor to go moment to moment like she does, there's no one better. And she dances between moments. Each take is different because she's riding instincts, she's riding impulses. And she trusts that.
-
Somehow I seem to have been gently bypassed as a serious actor.
-
The more money you make, the more the culture already attracts you to serve it, with an aura of glitter and power, to reproduce it in even stronger ways. And you have to resist that so much if any meaningful artistic integrity is to be had.
-
If you wake up whenever you want, and you slept for 10 hours, and you're lazy getting out of bed, then I believe that affects your whole life in a negative way.
-
Some actions are even baser than the people who commit them.
-
I do a lot of media work, I've been investing and I'm involved with real estate. It's totally different from what I had been doing but I find it challenging and fun. To be honest, I really don't miss the track. I pretty well accomplished what I set out to do and it was time to move on.
