Paul S. Kemp Quotes
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.
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You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.
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I will keep working hard!
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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I was embarrassed about modeling. When you're at school and you're modeling, it sounds very glamorous, but I didn't want to do things that no one else was doing. I didn't want to be the odd one out. I wanted to be part of the gang.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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I'm not a boastful person. I like my actions to speak for me.
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Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
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I'm not that materialistic. I like nice clothes and that, but I don't spend lots of money on stuff. I'm not really into TV, I don't have an iPod, I've got a gramophone.
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If people buy my books for vanity, I consider it a tax on idiocy.
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To me, patriotism is about working ethically and wholeheartedly in our chosen field.
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I am essentially someone who comes from the theatre. I love the theatre. Unfortunately, theatre doesn't pay the bills. Only in theatre abroad, I get a wage.
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As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away.
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In Majorca, I can be myself. I go to the supermarket and the cinema, and I am just Rafa. Everyone knows me, and it is no big deal. I can go all day - no photographs.
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The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent.
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I want to be European, world and Olympic gold medallist.
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Money has changed today's black athletes. Those who have the ability as African men to bring a change in a community that so desperately needs it are concentrating only on their own careers, some charities and how much money they can make.
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Like a lot of London, Richmond town centre had been laid out back when town planning was something that happened to other people.
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The proof that our relationship is right with God is that we do our best whether we feel inspired or not.
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I think Nine Inch Nails was a really big one for me, when I was 18. They really inspired me to start making my own music.
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If agricultural land be left uncultivated, in a few years the jungle returns, and signs are not lacking that a similar danger is always lying in wait for the fields of thought, which, by the labour of three hundred years, have been cleared and brought into cultivation by men of science. The destruction of a very small percentage of the population would suffice to annihilate scientific knowledge, and lead us back to almost universal belief in magic, witchcraft and astrology.
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Thought and learning are of small value unless translated into action.
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I loved The Weird (one of the stories in it inspired Blackalley in Discourse).