Genzebe Dibaba Quotes
I have been dreaming of an outdoor world record forever. Now I want them all: the 1500, the 5000, even the 800.
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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.
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I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
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Do you know why dogs are man's best friend? It's because they're not in politics.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.
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What I love about film is that everybody often connects to something so different, and things you couldn't anticipate when you were making the film, so you just make it as honest as possible.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.
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The guys in Kiss use some make up too so at first it was exiting. I've almost stopped using make-up nowadays.
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For me, acting is a long-term thing. I'm not in a hurry to make it. I have no desire to explode onto the film industry. I still want to be acting when I'm 60.
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Kids are very cruel to each other.
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
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A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
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I play the guitar. This year at the Sundance film festival, I joined the band from 'The Guitar' on stage. We warmed up for Patti Smith, and then the director Michel Gondry got on the drums to play some songs from the soundtrack to his film Be Kind Rewind with Mos Def. It was pretty mad.
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I believe in both my right and my responsibility to work to create a world that doesn't glorify violence and war but where we seek different solutions to our common problems.
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I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation.
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VCs are used to being the gatekeepers of capital. There's this old narrative of entrepreneurs going hat in hand begging VCs for money. That absolutely is not the world we're in anymore.
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I have been dreaming of an outdoor world record forever. Now I want them all: the 1500, the 5000, even the 800.
