Kai Greene Quotes
I feel it is a tremendous compliment to a natural competitor to hear "I just don't believe you're natural," because it means you just look that good.
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I never feel with the fashion stuff that it's too fake. If I was a model and had a working part in Fashion Week, then I might feel like that, but I'm just a visitor. I really only walk in and watch the shows and think, 'Maybe I could wear that in a video.' I meet the designer, say hello, and then I go.
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
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Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.
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A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good.
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The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.
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I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
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Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
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The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.
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We have used the presence of UNMIK, as well as other European and American agencies to establish a legal framework compatible with the European Union and that is already an advantage. We have seen the positive effects of this and our parliament will continue to go this way.
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Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.
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If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
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I'm not really a fan of people who think they're better than others. There's no reason to act that way. I couldn't even stand to yell at someone if they bumped right into me.
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Spain used to be very individualistic in its sporting activities. Now we are showing we are pretty good in teams - that is an improvement.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.
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Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.
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My father was a painter, so I was encouraged to take a sketchbook everywhere. Cameras are perishable, but I still have tonnes of sketchbooks from all the trips I've ever been on. It gets you by when you don't know what to give people as a gift; drawings are good souvenirs.
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Domain names and websites are Internet real estate.
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These unwritten amenities have been in part responsible for giving our people the feeling of independence and self-confidence, the feeling of creativity. These amenities have dignified the right of dissent and have honored the right to be nonconformists and the right to defy submissiveness. They have encouraged lives of high spirits rather than hushed, suffocating silence.
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Love melts the rigor which the rocks have bred; a flint will break upon a feather bed.
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I feel it is a tremendous compliment to a natural competitor to hear "I just don't believe you're natural," because it means you just look that good.
