Eric Liddell Quotes
The secret of my success over the 400m is that I run the first 200m as fast as I can. Then, for the second 200m, with God's help I run faster.
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When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.
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I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden.
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When Pakistan was carved out of India's rib in 1947, it was assumed by some that Bollywood's Muslim stars would defect to the new state and thus boost the Lahore film industry. But Lollywood did not happen.
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There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.
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People win Oscars, and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. The moment I won the Oscar, I felt the teardown the very next day.
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Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.
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With five chances on each hand and one unwavering aim, no boy, however poor, need despair. There is bread and success for every youth under the American flag who has energy and ability to seize his opportunity.
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I don't need to impress children.
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But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.
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I am really bothered when I see my friends facing problems back in Iran, but I tell them that not all the doors are shut.
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In terms of aesthetics, I probably look better than I did when I played.
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Fear that makes faith may break faith; and a fool Is but in folly stable.
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My favorite actors are people who I don't know anything about, and I can project any character onto them.
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I have for some time now been deeply troubled by the growing difficulties faced by Christian communities in various parts of the Middle East. It seems to me that we cannot ignore the fact that Christians in the Middle East are increasingly being deliberately targeted by fundamentalist Islamist militants.
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Ralph Lemon is my idol. But music is my biggest passion. Frank Ocean's 'Pyramids' is on repeat. That kind of stuff with Frank Ocean makes me cry.
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I don't really go out that much, if I'm honest. I'm quite a recluse. If I had my way, I'd probably be at home most of the time with a book and a cup of tea or glass of wine.
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Eating vegetarian doesn't mean you have to eat boring, humdrum dishes.
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Age is just a number. When I started, I never worried about how long I was going to play. I had very specific goals, and that's what I really chased.
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I want to know about what makes an athlete tick.
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If you had to explain America's economic success with one word, that word would be "education".... Until now, the results of educational neglect have been gradual - a slow-motion erosion of America's relative position. But things are about to get much worse, as the economic crisis ... deals a severe blow to education across the board.... We need to wake up and realize that one of the keys to our nation's historic success is now a wasting asset. Education made America great; neglect of education can reverse the process.
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We go after legacies because we just know that, sooner or later, people will understand what we bring to this culture and bring to the game.
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The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.
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I love as you come into Paris, you've got the Arch de Triomphe and all that crazy traffic. Then I love the drive from Paris down to Antibes and you veer off east in through the Alps and you come into the south of France on the mountain road as opposed to the freeway.
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The secret of my success over the 400m is that I run the first 200m as fast as I can. Then, for the second 200m, with God's help I run faster.
