Maurice Greene Quotes
You'd like more people to recognise what you do is special. But I take the attitude that the best thing I can do for my sport is to be the best at it. The best way people will come to recognise that track and field is a great sport is to see athletes excelling at it. Which is what I intend to do.
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Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: You have to learn the rhythms of respiration - acquire the pace. Otherwise you stop right away.
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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In all my movies, be it 'Page 3', 'Chandni Bar' or 'Corporate,' I have tried to depict honesty and reality.
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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In the wealthy industrialized nations, effective drug therapies against AIDS became available - AZT as early as 1987, then combinations of antiretroviral agents in 1996. The new drugs offered hope that fatal complications might be staved off and AIDS rendered a chronic condition.
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It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
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I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
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Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.
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I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess – perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through about 100 revisions. If anything, that's an understatement. If there's another author out there who does this sort of revision, I would really like to meet him. Maybe we could form some sort of support group.
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I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years.
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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.
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I don't think I will go for an arranged marriage, but I am not against arranged marriages.
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I keep my horses out in the open, but when I was working the ranches, I had to clean the stalls. It was a horrible job.
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Social peace requires reciprocity.
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I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.
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In television, a sitcom is probably the closest thing to what it's like working in the theater.
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I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.
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There are so many songs in me that haven't been born yet. So I can't call myself a genius, but I never turn away a compliment, and I feel like I'm on my way to that mountain.
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I create fictional narratives, but it's based on literal people.
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We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.
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I have been in the film industry for 35 years, and everyone, including the spot-boys, will vouch for my character.
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You'd like more people to recognise what you do is special. But I take the attitude that the best thing I can do for my sport is to be the best at it. The best way people will come to recognise that track and field is a great sport is to see athletes excelling at it. Which is what I intend to do.
