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.
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I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style.
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I actually like to sing on 'Rock Band.' I prefer to take the mic.
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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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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.
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.
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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.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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I've been doing African dance all my life.
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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.
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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
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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.
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I've always been drawn to the idea that small choices in our lives could have drastic effects on our future.
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The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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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.
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Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
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Every character I approach, from 'Forrest Gump' all the way up to 'The Spoils Before Dying,' has a different set of requirements and always fascinates me.
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It is all a matter of time scale. An event that would be unthinkable in a hundred years may be inevitable in a hundred million.
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I don't like all of the contemporary country. I like some of it, but I'm mostly into the traditional style.
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It definitely gets challenging at times. I travel a lot more now, and its never easy having to leave the kids, even if its for a few days.
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I think there is a difference between Slate and Salon. I think we both serve important functions on the Internet. As more and more Websites disappear, I'm thankful Slate is still around because it makes things less lonely.
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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.
