Carl Lewis Quotes
I'm not Carl Lewis the athlete any more. I'm growing into a new person with new interests and new goals.
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Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.
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When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
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We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.
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My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.
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Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.
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I understand that the nature of politics sometimes involves fending off frivolous, anonymous allegations.
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The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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I had all the fame anyone could want, and I ran away from it.
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
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I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.
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Your man Daddy Yankee, some black and white people who know what's going on in the 'hood and the clubs are supporting him and loving him. But he's speaking Spanish, and he's speaking directly to the Latino people, and the people who know the language really dig it.
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'Harry Potter' really harnessed the imagination of so many young-adult minds, and it's the same with the 'Divergent' series.
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The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.
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From my undergraduate days, I've always been interested in the major philosophical questions that don't seem to have an answer that everyone agrees on.
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When you get to be a 45-year-old man, you start to realize: 'I know who I am, and I know who I'm not. I know my shortcomings, I know my strengths; maybe some of my shortcomings are my strengths.' You start to face yourself as you truly are.
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People often assume New York City is no place to keep a dog. This is certainly what my parents told me when I was growing up there. But I have found this not to be the case at all.
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HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.
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With modern medicine prolonging life no matter what condition you're in, it seems like we're working towards immortality by science.
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Making music is like being the president: You can't tell people you're going to make health care free to get them behind you, but when you get that role, you don't do it.
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I'm not Carl Lewis the athlete any more. I'm growing into a new person with new interests and new goals.
