Carl Lewis Quotes
People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.
Quotes to Explore
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I'm a big handbag lover and will always have one with me.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.
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I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire... I'll go and research the book, download it on my phone and read it while I'm on the road.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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Playing hard to get is not the way to win me over. I'm definitely more for the girl who can smile and laugh all the time and just have a good time!
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Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
Garry Kasparov
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In some ways I was curt because there's an unbelievable amount to accomplish in a day.
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People negotiate their way around how a human mind works and find blind points. That's how people steal effectively.
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If feminism wasn't powerful, if feminism wasn't influential, people wouldn't spend so much time putting it down.
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I realised that a lot of women felt the same way I did - they didn't want to wear heavy make-up, but, for whatever reason, there were elements in their skin they want to smooth out or cover.
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Generally, when a record label suggests album ideas for you, you smile politely, and then proceed to shoot it down, because it's never what you as an artist feel is right for you.
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People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.
