Yohan Blake Quotes
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I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive.
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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I like things simple.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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A lot of people think that to make it as a model you just need to be pretty and slim, but they're wrong. There's a lot of hard work involved. You have to be very focused, know what kind of work you're aiming for.
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When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid; you don't necessarily even have the experiences to add to the story. You're working off of instinct and raw emotions and raw talent, and hopefully it's the same trajectory as growing as a person.
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I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?
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Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.
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When I run - as you see from my record - I run to win.
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I have learned not to feed the trolls. I just don't respond.
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I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.
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Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
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My experience is that you can't possibly win against whatever the tidal wave is that's coming at you.
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I hope to someday have a fully functioning production company.
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In any kid's relationship with their parents, there's always an influence there. You always want to do them proud.
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I've spent a lot of years living with normal people. If I take a private jet to go to a meeting in Milan, well, that's my business; I can do it. But I don't live for it.
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It's nerve wracking being in the stadium with so many people supporting.
