Carl Lewis Quotes
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
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They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
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I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.
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We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good care of it, we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it.
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As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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You'll be fooled if you only get your hip-hop from the mainstream, you know. The things that move people are not just found in the mainstream cultures. And when we talk about hip-hop in general, hip-hop's basically preoccupied with life.
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Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.
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Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
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I had to get some things right in my personal life. And once I got my family on the same page, to understand who I am and what I do for a living, I asked my oldest daughter, 'What do you think about Daddy coming back?' And she said, 'I didn't think you were done. I want you to win the Super Bowl.'
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My dream date is a tall, dark, handsome, blue eyed man with a bubble butt who will whisk me away to Paris in a hot air balloon to wine me, dine me and.
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Country music fans are extremely supportive. Once they're with you, they're with you for life.
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I want to protect my life. I don't want my life to become a reality show.
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Thank God I'm with the love of my life. That's why I know I'm right where I'm supposed to be.
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There are some times when I think acting can be a noble profession. And when those rare roles come along, like 'Down to the Bone,' you have the opportunity to be of service.
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Researchers have found very little difference between men and women in terms of the amount of time spent gossiping.
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Our message of the day is service does not need a title.
