Paula Radcliffe Quotes
Every time I go out and race it's a goal to go out and run faster than I've done before.
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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
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Be true to yourself and go with your instincts - don't be somebody you're not just to fit in.
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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
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I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies.
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Every single figure on Mount Rushmore was a third party at one time or another, so third parties become major parties, and I think that the Libertarian Party may become my major party.
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I have to go with what the painting says to me. The painting is always informing me. I'm its servant; it's not mine. I'm doing what it wants.
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Well concerning the world records that I did, I think it helps a lot to me, yeah. I think it's a very individual thing because I heard some people say, like, oh I don't like it at all. But I definitely, for me it really made a big difference.
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I'm a total Disney freak. I want to live in Disney World.
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I drive a big Dodge truck. I drive American cars.
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Film is really the one art form that can effectively use silence. Music and theater can play with silence, but they can't sustain silence without losing energy, whereas film can go into a silent mode and stay there for minutes at a time.
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'Taxicab Confessions' always cracks me up. And if you are in the mood for a good game show, I like 'Survivor' because it's well made.
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The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
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I cannot step into any day without help. I have a fantastically engaged husband who is very present for his children and our family life. We've got a brilliant nanny, other help from parents-in-law, godparents, friends. Also, I've had incredible women around me in the business.
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It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
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I made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people.
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We made some progress in respect of draft texts but obviously not sufficient progress.
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It was not perfect but I'm very happy. It could have been better, but I'm now looking forward to my second race of the season.
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Throughout my life, I have held the strongest belief that if you write down what you want to accomplish in your life: your dreams, goals, hopes and aspirations, you are much more likely to achieve them. I have been writing down my goals since I was a kid, and I've had more success than I could have ever dreamed of... one goal at a time.
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An Ant on a hot stove-lid runs faster than an Ant on a cold one. Who wouldn't?
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At the end of life thoughts hitherto impossible come to the collected mind, like good spirits which let themselves down from the shining heights of the past.
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Every time I go out and race it's a goal to go out and run faster than I've done before.
