Sebastian Coe Quotes
I became a great runner because if you're a kid in Leeds and your name is Sebastian you've got to become a great runner.
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I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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Anyone who still supports George Bush would still let Michael Jackson babysit their kids.
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It'll be interesting to raise kids in New York City. I'm from suburbia, so I don't really have any experience with what it's going to be like here.
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My wife is short, and my two kids are also small.
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Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
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I've got four kids to feed and a wife to provide for. It's a worry but a great responsibility as well and one I relish.
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I definitely feel like kids do look up to me as a potential role model. It's an honor, but it can also be a burden. I may be on TV, but I'm also a teenager. I don't get it right every time. But I always do my absolute best to stay above board in every way. My fans inspire me to be a better person.
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Compared to running apps on a smartphone or, more aptly, an iPad, the app experience on the Samsung Chromebook Plus is distinctly subpar.
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I know I got to do something that's one in a million, to escape a refugee camp, to come to this country and have so many doors open for me. So I want to go back and make a difference and give motivation or hope to all the kids that never got to leave or have the privilege that I did.
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All throughout my life I have been deeply immersed in startups, either because I was running one or investing in them or helping them.
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I never felt like I wanted to have kids until I could be home and be a daddy, and those are the things that I didn't have.
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I'm a triathlete. Running is when I do my best living and my best thinking. I love the discipline, pushing yourself to suffer as much as you can, because it leads to a form of redemption.
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Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.'
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The process is so complicated that it offers ever so many occasions for running abnormally.
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Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in the saddle and look upon their troops with a noble and benevolent and extremely nearsighted gaze.
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The workplace should have a place where the kids can visit. They should have places at the mother's or the father's work where professionals can have their kids visit them whenever they feel like it.
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My father was in the coal and heating business, and he wanted me to take over his business, and I resented every moment of it. So I would never force my kids to do what I do.
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I think education was the key for me, and that's what I tell kids. That base in the classics gave me something to springboard from, which I wouldn't have had if I'd come out to Los Angeles early and been guest punk of the week on 'Hill Street Blues.'
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You keep running after the love of the people, but you’ll never get it. And what you do get, will never be enough. The hole inside you is too big. You see, it was made by God, for God. How could anything less fill it?
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It seems to me that the older I get, the more running around I do with less satisfaction, just spinning my wheels.
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You see Michelangelo and Picasso and you read literature. I had some innate inchoate yearning for that, but I never really saw where I would fit in. That's called art. And then something happened to pop music, which is that it became art under the hand of the Beatles, the Stones, and Bob Dylan and some other people.
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In a way, it plays on your heart a little bit.
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I became a great runner because if you're a kid in Leeds and your name is Sebastian you've got to become a great runner.
