Jesse Owens Quotes
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If you start lifting weights, you will expect to put weight on, as muscle is heavier than fat. But you have to look more at your body shape - you will get heavier - but you might get smaller and heavier at the same time, which is fine. And it doesn't really matter what you weigh as long as you are happy with your shape and size!
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Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are a form of money that's a stable field that the government can't destroy and can't distort. Because its creation is governed by the laws of mathematics. It can't happen any faster or slower than a certain rate, and it all sort of self-adjusts.
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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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The economy needs thriving, job-creating small businesses, but excessive and ill-considered regulations too often get in the way of growth.
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I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
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Maybe 'America first' means also that you have to deal with America first.
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I think I was just lucky to be brought up in a very musical family. My two older brothers were, and still are, very musical and very creative, and music was a big part of my life from a very young age, so it is quite natural for me to become involved in music in the way that I did.
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My looks have changed. I have laugh lines - not wrinkles.
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In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.
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Fans are all I care about - to be honest. If they stop coming to the shows, then I will get worried.
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I could easily go one or two days without realizing that I'm so, so hungry. That's the negative outcome of what I've become.
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As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
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Like every artist that comes out, you want to make a mark; you want to be a household name and you want to be someone that people are going to look back in ten years/fifteen years' time and go, 'I love this guy Olly Murs. He was brilliant back in the day; he was someone I really, really liked.'
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I fracked over 3,000 wells in my life and never had a problem with an aquifer.
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As an actor, you spend a lot of your life in hotel rooms.
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My yachts were, I suppose, outstanding status symbols.
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I don't think so, but it's always in the back of my mind that many of the soldiers being wounded and killed in Iraq are about the same age as my kids. My godson is going over soon, so the war's about to get personal for me.
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He thought he saw an Elephant, That practised on a fife: He looked again, and found it was A letter from his wife. 'At length I realise,' he said, 'The bitterness of Life!'
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People are getting away from the whole album experience, it's true. I think that's sad. Maybe I'm just saying that because I'm an old fart. But I can't help it - albums are what I grew up with, and I still love them.
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I know of over 3,000 ways [that] a light bulb does not work.
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There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between record labels, publishing companies and artists about the compensation they get from streaming services Spotify is returning a HUGE amount of money to the record labels. If we continue growing at our current rate in terms of subscriptions and downloads, we'll overtake iTunes in terms of contributions to the recorded music business in under two years.
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Poems, for me, begin as a social engagement. I want to establish a kind of sociability or even hospitality at the beginning of a poem. The title and the first few lines are a kind of welcome mat where I am inviting the reader inside.
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Everyone's journey is completely different.
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One chance is all you need.
