Carl Lewis Quotes

I've always known that sporting people frequently suffer from joint problems because of the repeated strain they put on their bodies to get to the top. But somehow I never thought it would happen to me.

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• Islam means peace.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Peace
  • Means
  • Islam

• Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Control
  • Happiness
  • Path

• I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • World
  • Kids
  • Together

• I haven't actually studied acting at all.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Acting
  • Actually
  • Studied

• I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • You
  • Fashion
  • London

• The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Problem
  • Impossible
  • Rich

• I want to have an impact on my son.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Want
  • Son
  • Impact

• I think having children is the most amazing thing.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Children
  • Think
  • Amazing

• We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Remember

• You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • People
  • Business
  • High

• In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Food
  • California
  • Vote

• After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May '93.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • May
  • Business
  • Start

• I'm gonna sing, and I'm going to make me a lot of money.

  

  Sam Cooke
  • Going
  • Sing
  • Make Money

• Carter's done a lot more good since he's been out of the White House than when he was in it.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Good
  • Done
  • House

• Filming is a witnessing process. You don't try to control it, even though sometimes you wish you could because it can go really, really wrong for you.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Control
  • Wish
  • Process

• In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Simple

• I started singing very early. I was six or seven years old, and I was singing along to TV commercials and figuring out, 'Oh, hey, I can sing in tune. This is really cool.' But the songwriting thing came much much later, when I was 19 years old.

  

  Yuna
  • Cool
  • Singing
  • Old

• I was born in 1991, and 'Harry Potter' came out in '97, so, you know, I was really obsessed. I used to read them in one night.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Night
  • Know
  • Born

• As we have all said, we understand that electronic surveillance is a vital tool in the war on terror. We all want to know when Osama bin Laden is calling: when he is calling, who he is calling, and what he is saying.

  

  Chris Van Hollen
  • War

• We're inseparable, games and I. If you cut me, I'd bleed pixels. Or blood. Probably blood, come to think of it.

  

  Charlie Brooker

• I think I feel more relieved because we have already made a historical breakthrough for the Chinese men's aerials. As you know, we had never got into the finals at previous Olympics.

  

  Han Xiaopeng
  • Olympics
  • Breakthrough
  • Aerials

• The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Human
  • Movies
  • Bold

• Be a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger than yourself. Add value to the Earth during your sojourn.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Good
  • Earth
  • Value

• I've always known that sporting people frequently suffer from joint problems because of the repeated strain they put on their bodies to get to the top. But somehow I never thought it would happen to me.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • People
  • Thought
  • Problems