Gelila Bekele Quotes
I'm learning simplicity and how to wear my body. I'm enjoying life and trying to be the best me.
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In 2005, I had one more year of college left, and I was taking a summer class in Barbados. I got discovered in the airport on my way back and started modeling at the beginning of my senior year at Bucknell.
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I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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One rose says more than the dozen.
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You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
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People in this country haven't stopped hating fat people, but they've become more kind to me, since in our culture, even though we hate our fat people, we love our celebrities even more.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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I honored my commitments, and as president, I will honor every commitment that I make to the men and women of this country.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even after they've had periods of great success. So I think it's like you just gotta do you and try to stay motivated. Until, you know, you decide to stay home and make spaghetti all day.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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I can't say I follow it, but I've watched 'Downton Abbey' a couple of times and loved it.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.
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When I did have some success, it further emboldens you to be like, 'No, I'm just going to write what I feel I should write.'
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Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.
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Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
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When my wrestlers got their hands raised, I jumped for joy.
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I'm learning simplicity and how to wear my body. I'm enjoying life and trying to be the best me.
