Pierre de Coubertin Quotes
The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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A lot of people try to paint this child actor stigma, but I always looked at it as a great opportunity.
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The first impression that I liked doing was an impression of Cheri Oteri's Barbara Walters impression on 'SNL.' I found that I could mimic that pretty well, and people got a kick out of that.
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I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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I want to compete in the next Olympics. If I go to Rio, it will be my third time, which is a rare feat for an Indian athlete. For me, Olympics is important because it's the biggest event on earth for a sports person. I hope this time around I come back with a medal.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I think there is some truth to the fact that yeah, okay, cool, obviously the more mainstream kind of easier-to-grasp-onto dance music has become popular, but that holds true with almost any genre. It wasn't like the Sex Pistols hit the radio. It was poppier versions of that is what hit. It's never, like, the true core stuff.
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.
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I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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Homecourt is everything in the NBA.
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At the end of 2000, most investors were optimistic that a return to quick gains could not be far off.
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I'll skate on concrete if I have to. I'm not worried about how fast the ice is. I'm worried about how fast I can go on the ice.
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Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them.
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All I ever did was supply a demand that was pretty popular.
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Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone - they just don't do it.
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The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well.
