Sebastian Coe Quotes

All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.

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• If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Live
  • Medical
  • Doctor

• My Mt. Rushmore of hero worship would include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcus Aurelius, Frank Sinatra and Barry White.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Hero
  • White
  • Worship

• I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Marriage
  • Thought
  • Quiet

• I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Career
  • Lucky
  • Critics

• Every sport has its own cast of characters.

  

  Randy Savage
  • Own
  • Every
  • Cast

• Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It's part of being a man. It's the cultural construction of masculinity.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Man

• You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Life
  • Why
  • You

• What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
  • Myself
  • Best

• Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Bad
  • Ideas

• As actors, we're all encouraged to feel that each job is the last job. They plant some little electrode in your head at an early stage and you think, 'Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.'

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Job
  • Plant
  • Grateful

• Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Money
  • Capitalism
  • Throw

• I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • People
  • Myself
  • Laugh

• My daughter said, 'I don't think granddad really suits you.'

  

  Ian McShane
  • Think
  • Daughter
  • Suits

• If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Life
  • Story
  • Life Story

• One believes others will do what he will do to himself.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Will
  • Others
  • Himself

• To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.'

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • World
  • Good
  • Confidence

• The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Done
  • Better
  • Identity

• We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake. To preserve civilisation, we must deal scientifically with the brute element, using only genuine biological principles.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Long
  • Nature
  • Man

• Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Mind
  • Mysteries
  • Narrowness

• The debt immense of endless gratitude, So burthensome, still paying, still to owe; Forgetful what from him I still receivd, And understood not that a grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and dischargd; what burden then?

  

  John Milton
  • Gratitude
  • Debt
  • Immense

• It wouldn't bring her back. I know. Trust me, I do. And I would have done far worse, he says, if I'd thought there was a way to bring Regina back. I would have traded places. I would have sold souls. I would have torn this world apart. I would have done anything, broken any rule, just to bring her back.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • World
  • Done
  • Trust

• He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.

  

  Moliere
  • Peace
  • Lessons
  • Manure

• All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.

  

  Sebastian Coe
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