Genzebe Dibaba Quotes
I used to win at school, and some teacher said to me, 'Why don't you take up running like your sisters?'
Genzebe Dibaba
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There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
M. Scott Peck
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
Parker Posey
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Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.
Ted Hughes
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When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving people so much of yourself, and my voice is the most natural, distinctive tool I have. It's up to me to express myself on a wider scale than just writing vocal melodies and lyrics.
Sampha
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We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer.
Wendell Pierce
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I never went to fashion school. I didn't know what a designer was. I knew I had something, but I didn't know what it was. And it could just have easily been nothing.
Ralph Lauren
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In Windsor in the forties, and even up into the fifties and sixties, if you were black, you had to sit in the balcony of the theatres, and you couldn't buy property in most places.
Wayne Grady
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I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'
Bebe Rexha
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Most big popcorn movies are 'bad guy does something to good guy, good guy gets revenge on bad guy, sets the world right, and moves on.' And 'Ender's Game' is just not that simple, so it's an exciting challenge. It's a little terrifying, and let's see how audiences respond.
Gavin Hood
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
Adam Lambert
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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
Edmund Burke
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If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.
Adam Clarke
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
Oscar Wilde
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I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.'
Pat Conroy
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Everything I want to do in my life, I want to be at the top.
Rafael dos Anjos
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There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
Fidel Castro
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How do we get more politicians to move from 'fixing' the system to reforming the system? The obvious answer is to either improve the quality of public services or reduce the public's dependence on them. Both approaches are necessary.
Raghuram Rajan
