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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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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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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Fear that makes faith may break faith; and a fool Is but in folly stable.
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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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Things are neither clear nor clean in the world of football right now and many people recognise this reality.
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It's okay to wake up and look however you look. You are beautiful regardless.
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My femininity is always something I've tried to preserve in this dog-eat-dog world.
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In isolated or country places no man's life is safe.
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And I got to know Red Foley well. And I got to know Lefty really well, he was a great guy.
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I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
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For as well as I have loved thee heretofore, mine heart will not serve now to see thee; for through thee and me is the flower of kings and knights destroyed.
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Poetry was the maiden I loved, but politics was the harridan I married.
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Unemployment is a great tragedy. The man who goes about hopelessly seeking work in order to earn bread for his children is a living reproach to civilization.
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'Dancing with the Stars' is a great format for us. It's a format we license from the BBC, so that can't travel for us, but we consider it a great success. 'Desperate Housewives,' on the other hand, a huge success for us internationally. 'Missing' has actually sold to 80 territories before it's even gone on the air.
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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.
