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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I never really hated any particular sport but out of all the sports, I used to prefer the team games to running and sprinting and those types of things.
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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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Running for office is similar to being a trial lawyer in a very long trial. It requires adrenaline and stamina; it requires being in shape mentally and emotionally. It's a marathon.
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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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Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared. If the mind is in pain, the mind is pain. The thinker has no other form than his thought.
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The noncook is in a helpless position, much like that of the car owner who can’t change a tire and has to depend on mechanics to keep his automobile running.
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I'm not a polemicist; I had no business writing a polemic.
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I love to watch good actors who surprise and amuse me.
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I confess to wincing every so often at a poorly chosen word, a mangled sentence, an expression of emotion that seems indulgent or overly practiced. I have the urge to cut the book by fifty pages or so, possessed as I am with a keener appreciation for brevity.
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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.
