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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• 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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• I remember there being a period of time when I had a baby, and I was so sleep-deprived that I'd get into having no filter, and that was not good.

  

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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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• If you're in a conversation with me, the last thing I'll probably say when I'm walking away is, 'Thank you and sorry.'

  

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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.

  

  Hamid Karzai
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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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• If my parents ever had to ground me, they didn't really know what that would mean, because I was inside most of the time anyway.

  

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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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• Imagination is powerful. Imagination is healing. All you need is the courage to visualize what should be, and then give yourself to its creation. The result may not be what you expected, but it will be right.

  

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• Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

  

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• I think it's always a good time to be in a political film in America because there's so much material for comedy.

  

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• At The Gong Show... I was nervous, I was afraid, but I went out there and auditioned and they liked me. They asked me to come back and tape the show.

  

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• At the end of the day, if we don't show female sports on TV, how are sponsors going to want to sponsor women? And if we don't support the women, how do you expect us to get results? It's a bit of a catch-22.

  

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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.

  

  Sergei Bubka
  • Sports
  • Athlete
  • Careers