Yohan Blake Quotes
One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
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I started acting when I was 5 years old. And I was pretty well known for a while. Your self-esteem and your identity start to become wrapped up in that celebrity, and when that starts to fade away, your self-esteem and your identity start to fade away with it.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.
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I am so grateful that I accepted the offer to do 'CSI,' but it was like being shot out of a cannon, and it was so different from anything that I have ever done.
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There's a difference between being posh and being rich.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
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Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
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For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure.
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If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind a piano late at night, I might write something like 'Desperado.' You're not going to write 'Desperado' between a wall of Marshalls and thumping, crushing volume.
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I test my bath before I sit, And I'm always moved to wonderment That what chills the finger not a bit Is so frigid upon the fundament.
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I don't remember having a crush on a boy when I was a girl. I don't even remember my first kiss.
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My brother really shaped my musical taste when I was younger. He turned me on to classic rock like Led Zeppelin, and then he got me into R.E.M. and U2.
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Much of my work has come from being lazy.
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One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.
