Sebastian Coe Quotes

Vision is a romantic thing. We have got into 'talent identification'. I am much more interested in passion - finding people who are really excited about doing something.

Sebastian Coe

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• I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.

  

  Larry Brown
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• Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Human
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• I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.

  

  Daniel Barber
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• I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.

  

  Rand Paul
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• A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
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• Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Time
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• I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really important not to get sidetracked in the morning so I'm still in that dreamy state for my writing.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Up
  • Work
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• I need talk more, call people out. It's not who I am, but I feel I need to do this more to bring more attention for me.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Attention
  • Talk

• A bad system will beat a good person every time.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bad

• If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?

  

  Sally Struthers
  • God
  • Why
  • Man

• I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King Lear.'

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Mind
  • Trying
  • Journey

• I really have become convinced that nuclear fusion is our energy future. It's so powerful. I mean, it is the power of the stars. If we could bring that down to the laboratory and to the power plant on Earth, that would be an incredible thing.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Power
  • Future
  • Earth

• The facts are on our side.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Facts
  • Side
  • Our

• The culmination of a long struggle was 2013, which could clearly be labeled the Year of the Gay. State after state had legalized gay marriage, despite intense opposition from the religious right.

  

  Edmund White
  • Long
  • Marriage
  • Religious

• The proliferation of outlets that digital technology has enabled has itself contributed to the changing nature of what we regard as 'news' and the way in which many citizens perceive politics.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Nature
  • Technology
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• There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Know
  • Fascinating

• French existentialism is an unhelpful philosophy in which to couch modern feminism: born from the ravages of the Second World War, it is a cynical, individualistic school of thought that posits the self and personal choice as the measure of life's entire meaning.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Life
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  • School

• This is my wedding day! The day I marry Emmanuel! And the word 'wedding,' which she had always linked the happiness, now seemed austere, distressing, full of snares and revelations. She saw her mother, heavy and moving with difficulty. A vision of herself as a victim of the same deformity was vivid in her mind.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Mind
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• We've all seen 'Jewing it up' performances. They are about as miserable to watch as as 'camping it up' performances when representing gays.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Up
  • Camping

• In 40-odd years in show business, some years I could do no wrong, and some years I could do nothing right. Show business. I owe it everything - it owes me nothing.

  

  Patsy Kelly
  • Business

• You go through the gate. If the gate’s closed you go over the fence. If the fence is too high, we’ll pole-vault. If that doesn’t work, we’ll parachute in. But we are going to get health care reform passed for the American people.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • Work
  • American

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• I believe in the simple things in life; everything derives from the beginning. You take things very simplistically and try to be the best person you can be.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Simple

• Vision is a romantic thing. We have got into 'talent identification'. I am much more interested in passion - finding people who are really excited about doing something.

  

  Sebastian Coe
  • People
  • Passion
  • Vision