Wakas Mir Quotes
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This gold medal, to me, is a very good outcome from the many years I've spent on my professional career.
Ma Long
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
Rachel Kushner
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There is a saying: 'The child is parent to the adult', which means whatever happens to you as a child or teenager affects the adult you become. You are forged in your history. And fiction is an incredibly important force in shaping children, and that's why fiction needs to be diverse.
Malorie Blackman
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The reason I want to show shocking things is that they always pose an ethical question.
Park Chan-wook
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I skate now for fun and to keep myself in shape.
Oksana Baiul
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To win the Championship in the first year will be hard. We need time to become competitive and win races.
Valentino Rossi
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I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous.
Yvonne Craig
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You change the world by being yourself.
Yoko Ono
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For decades, community colleges have been the backbone of American workforce training. Because they are nimble and closely attuned to local community needs, they are inherently positioned to be influential leaders of the movement for a sustainable economy.
Ed Begley, Jr.
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I'm a cereal girl. I have always loved my cereal ever since I was a kid.
Rachel Stevens
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I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.
B. F. Skinner
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What entrepreneurs and artists have in common is that they give the world something it didn't know it was missing.
Dan Pink
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Everything happens to me. I've never had a streak of luck in my life.
Eddie Slovik
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I need to put the right things in my body before and after I work out, so I end every workout with some sort of protein shake to help me get the most out of my training.
Sam Bradford
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If you've ever had a coworker actively interfere with your productivity, try to make you look bad, steal your ideas, or give you false information, you've been the victim of undermining.
Adam Grant
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Most clubs would actually like homegrown players because they're a lot cheaper.
Gary Lineker
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Living in different cultures helped me work out who I was going to be, separate from where I came from.
Jacinda Barrett
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I love 'Jane Eyre,' and I love the Bronte sisters. I actually didn't read any of them until I was in college, so I don't have quite the same connection with them that I think a lot of women do.
Mallory Ortberg
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Oh, when I was a kid, I was poor. Christmas, I got no presents. Well, there was one Christmas, on our front lawn - Prancer and Dancer - they dropped off a little something.
Jack Roy
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The bottom line is I'm writing to save the dead. I'm writing to save the people I have lost, some of whose bodies are still walking around.
Dorothy Allison
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I am inspired by thinkers. I am inspired by rebellion. I am inspired by children. I have been inspired by love. I have been inspired by heartbreak. I try to take everything that comes at me in life. There have been times in my life that I didn't handle things... right. But even though you stumble, you still kind of get through it.
Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
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Kizzy wanted it all so bad her soul leaned half out of her body hungering after it, and that was what drove the goblins wild, her soul hanging out there like an untucked shirt.
Laini Taylor
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If a Snickers chocolate bar has 50% sugar, wouldn't it be safe to eat the other half?
Wakas Mir