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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Anyone who still supports George Bush would still let Michael Jackson babysit their kids.
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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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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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We have to be thankful for what we have. A lot of kids would love to be in our situation, and we realize that.
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I don't think a lot of people realize the influence TV has on our kids. Kids take a lot of their cues from it in their dress and their conduct.
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Kids are wandering around the streets today that will become tomorrow's criminals that were yesterday's heroes.
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Underneath our nice, friendly facades there is great unease. If I were to scratch below the surface of anyone I would find fear, pain, and anxiety running amok. We all have ways to cover them up. We overeat, over-drink, overwork; we watch too much television.
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I had tried out for theatre school and didn't get it four times.
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I don't think people shouldn't try to be edgy, but you have to take what the audience says to you in consideration.
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As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports.
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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.
