Carl Lewis Quotes
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We as the Afghan people and government are willing to help Pakistan work for peace in Afghanistan and work for peace in Pakistan, together.
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Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
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I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth.
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I think I'm developing a kind of subconscious loathing of the word 'franchise.' I just think of something that's packaged, something you can buy on a shelf and is immediately disposable. I don't know. It's a really weird word for me.
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It can be frustrating when you're put in a category with others. Women do get lumped together in this reductive grouping, and you think, 'Gosh, that rarely happens with the boys.' I'm sure people don't say to Eddie Redmayne, 'How do you feel about Andrew Garfield?'
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Some people are instantly brilliant. The Kenneth Branaghs of this world are ready-formed actors at 23 - he has used his success in lots of different ways - but there are people out there for whom acting is: 'Ooh, I can get on the telly and be famous.'
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It's important that people come see our show, because we are performers. We wanted people to see that.
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I'd rather have people really be able to step back and get their money's worth and look at me as a true artist than somebody who is just regurgitating other material.
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I always joke with people that having nephews is the best birth control there is.
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Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.
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Our dream as actors is to tell interesting stories about interesting people.
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The pledge drive has everything going against it as broadcasting. It's repetitive. It's ad-libbed by people who can't ad-lib. It's about asking for money, which is something nobody wants to hear, even from their own relatives.
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My worst date would be with someone nervous who has nothing to say. I like people who inspire me.
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Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.
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I adore book-to-film adaptations when they're done well, and I'm more lenient than many readers when it comes to what counts as 'done well.' For me, the most important thing is that the film maintains the spirit of the original book.
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People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.
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All the art for Tool is done by the me and the band.
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I had a great conversation with Tom Waits, of all people.
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Oprah didn't want to put me on the show for a really long time because she thought I was more for the men than for the women.
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I only do solo albums when songs are screaming at me to be let out of my mind.
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Things will get better if you just hold out long enough.
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I have spent too long with too many people who have lost loved ones to healthcare-associated infections not to be determined to act on this. There is no tolerable level of preventable infections. The only acceptable strategy is a zero-tolerance strategy.
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In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.
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I like the pressure of having to perform so people will come to me.
