Donovan Bailey Quotes

I'm a competitor.

Donovan Bailey

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• I think there is no reason for us to bring to Islamism or political Islam the fear and ignorance of Western commentators and their hysterical vocabulary.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Political
  • Fear
  • Ignorance

• When we were shooting 'Oz,' my wife was doing 'Beauty and the Beast' on Broadway, singing and dancing. It was an interesting dichotomy in our house.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • House
  • Interesting
  • Wife

• Lord, I'm going to hold steady on to You and You've got to see me through.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • You
  • Me
  • See

• Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Up
  • Artist
  • Child

• I tend to really duck down and make myself smaller than I already am.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Myself
  • Down
  • Duck

• When I see other people out there, involved, and really giving their time and effort for the kids, then I don't mind giving my time and effort for the kids as well.

  

  LaMarr Woodley
  • People
  • Time
  • Mind

• A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Plague
  • Eminence
  • Stares

• I want to prove that you don't have to come from Oxford University or Rada - and you don't have to have parents that support you - to succeed.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Want
  • Parents
  • Support

• One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods.

  

  Fay Weldon

• I may cut my coat to follow fashion, sir, but not my conscience.

  

  Kage Baker
  • May
  • Fashion

• Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. I don’t mind the way I’m ageing. No reason to panic just yet. I think I look my age, and that’s fine. The lord God almighty has done me proud with my features which I'm proud of and have no desire to alter them. I say ' let nature take its course '.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Great
  • God
  • Mind

• On the plus side, it's a lot easier in general to find /usr/include than cpp.

  

  Larry Wall

• A long period of distress and anarchy, in which empire, and arts, and riches, had migrated from the banks of the Tiber, was incapable of restoring or adorning the city; and, as all that is human must retrograde if it do not advance, every successive age must have hastened the ruin of the works of antiquity.

  

  Edward Gibbon
  • Long
  • Age
  • City

• You cannot like the word, but what is happening is an occupation - to hold 3.5 million Palestinians under occupation. I believe that is a terrible thing for Israel and for the Palestinians.

  

  Ariel Sharon
  • Believe

• Life has no meaning a priori … It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Life
  • Up
  • Value

• For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

  

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • People
  • Dog
  • Lion

• The technology is just so far gone. It's just like back in the day you needed a suitcase just to have a cell phone. The battery was so heavy, it was like carrying a gallon of soda around with you all day.

  

  Jam Master Jay
  • Technology

• Sometimes the characters I find the most compelling are in independent movies. With independent scripts people can take more challenges.

  

  Brittany Snow
  • People
  • Independent

• For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don't want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I'm a product of nepotism. That's how I got my foot in the door, through my dad.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Up
  • Job
  • Father

• I suppose the best advice I ever got, frankly the advice that changed my life, came from my uncle who told me to go to drama school and study acting instead of taking a job, because he said the job would always be there.

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • Life
  • School
  • Job

• If I can't be fishing or hunting, I want to be in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

  

  Jim Harrison
  • Art
  • Hunting
  • Fishing

• I've been cast in a lot of comedies. I've done things like multi-cam sitcoms: you know, 'Seinfeld' type... not as good as 'Seinfeld,' but that kind of thing. I love that stuff.

  

  Johnny Flynn
  • Good
  • Done

• What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Quality
  • Ends

• I'm a competitor.

  

  Donovan Bailey