Sergei Bubka Quotes
I have spoken with many former athletes, and they tell me the best time they had was in sports. I listen to them and use their experience in my career.
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Do I want to write a musical? No. I like to do musicals.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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Nothing exists except through language.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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Decolonisation seems to have dented little the sense of superiority that since 1945 has made American leaders in particular consistently underestimate the intensity of nationalist feeling in Asia and Africa.
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You do the policy, I'll do the politics.
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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
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A democratically elected congressman of the United States of America should not be talking of an ethnic divide in Afghanistan, should not be interfering in Afghanistan's internal affairs.
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I love all animals. I just happen to prefer cats. They're really chill, and they're loving yet not loving. I relate to them, in a way.
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I definitely like the mystery of not knowing how things will turn out, you know.
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In a perfect world, we would have put users in control of their information when the Internet was first created.
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It takes a certain amount of courage to tackle very hard problems in science, I now realise. You don't know what the timescale of your work will be: decades or only a few years.
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All our forms are unique - movies, music and literature - and you have to leave the person who is doing it to do their best.
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We knew we were going to do a fashion line at some point.
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The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience.
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In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul.
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I'm afraid of flying.
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I wanted to be an endurance athlete from a young age. I remember being in a careers class at school and saying I wanted to be a professional athlete and the teacher replying, 'You're not going to make it; it's not possible.'
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You know how sports teach kids teamwork and how to be strong and brave and confident? Improv was my sport. I learned how to not waffle and how to hold a conversation, how to take risks and actually be excited to fail.
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Even when I was with Arista records, which was the freest part of my career, you still have to run a lot of stuff by committee whether it's a budget, or the album artwork, or how may songs you get to record. This was total freedom. We had nobody to answer to. We didn't have to get anything approved.
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I have spoken with many former athletes, and they tell me the best time they had was in sports. I listen to them and use their experience in my career.
