Genzebe Dibaba Quotes
I had a great season and truly enjoyed competing around the world - from Monaco, where I managed to establish a world record, to Beijing, where I finally captured my first world outdoor title.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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Skin care is so much more important than makeup. Makeup is for when you're having fun and going out. But your skin is forever.
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I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
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You have to realize that a lot of life is just fortune and the ebbs of flows of what goes on.
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I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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We know that reading to children is a crucial step. From the beginning, babies who are read to are exposed to the cadence of language, and school-age children who read at home for 15 minutes a day are exposed to millions of words.
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Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
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Winning and making history is something you can't buy. Me? I'm a guy who loves history. When I'm 60 or 70, I don't want to be remembered for the money I make. I want to be in the history books.
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You cannot imagine how great it is to step out on the stage with thousands of screaming fans loving you.
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The spirit of the gospel is in absolute disagreement with the spirit of the world.
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We do not yet understand that when we neglect men, we rape women.
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The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.
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I promised to run the most open and transparent administration in Britain. That is why, with this brutally honest and unprecedented progress report, I am determined to level with Londoners.
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I had a great season and truly enjoyed competing around the world - from Monaco, where I managed to establish a world record, to Beijing, where I finally captured my first world outdoor title.
