Sergei Bubka Quotes
The strategy of my coach and me was that we looked at pictures of all the best pole vaulters from around the world, and we took the best parts from them, and we created a person that had never existed. We then started to work toward being such a person.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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I love Coco de Mer.
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If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
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Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird. And the beauty of music is you can express all those different feelings in all the different songs you write. And hopefully, people can identify with those.
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What I always say to people is dress from the feet up. If you don't normally wear colour, try some colour on your feet; it's the place, I think you can have fun and update your outfit.
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The non-utility of my kitchen could be transformed into its utility for art. To do a show there would mix art and life, naturally.
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When I hear theists and atheists pontificating on how they know God does or does not exist, I can only smile at the irrationality and, yes, vanity of the notion.
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I've sung background for a couple of bands.
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According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.
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At the national level, I don't know how to describe a threat to destroy Country A in order to punish Country B other than to call it state terrorism.
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A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.
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From a person whose living depends on other people buying her creative work, this may sound odd, but one of my favorite things about the steampunk subculture is its do-it-yourself attitude.
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Well, I would say that music just happens with me, I'm not in the driver's seat when I am at the piano, the piano is.
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The Constitution was made for ordinary people.
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Growing up in the middle of nowhere, there was a lot of twangy music around, but it didn't really connect with me then.
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If you approach Cannes with a sense of humor, nothing is that bad. You have to take it for what it is; otherwise, it's silly.
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When I got married in Bucharest, there were 10,000 people on the street. People didn't go to work that day. It was emotional to see how people care about you. I didn't expect that.
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Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
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Country music has always sort of been country music.
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Plus l'effort est grand, plus la gloire en est grande.
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The strategy of my coach and me was that we looked at pictures of all the best pole vaulters from around the world, and we took the best parts from them, and we created a person that had never existed. We then started to work toward being such a person.
