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.
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My Mt. Rushmore of hero worship would include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcus Aurelius, Frank Sinatra and Barry White.
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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
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I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.
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Every sport has its own cast of characters.
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As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
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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.
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You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
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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.
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Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
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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.'
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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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.
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My daughter said, 'I don't think granddad really suits you.'
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If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.
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One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
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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.'
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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.
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Winning is very important to me, but at the end of the day, even if I lose, as long as I know I gave it everything I had, there's no shame in that.
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People are encouraged by what I do. You can feel it. I feel it. People are ready to embrace their humanity and to embrace the rest of the human race. People are ready for the idea that we're all brothers and sisters and that we need to cooperate with one another.
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Trust is built on telling the truth, not telling people what they want to hear.
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All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.
