Carl Lewis Quotes

I'm not a coach and I know it. I'm too busy and it doesn't pay. I'm expensive. But I would always advise.

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• Whenever I say that America has become an empire, someone is sure to say I'm being ridiculous.

  

  Harry Browne
  • America
  • Say
  • Someone

• I always say: 'Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it come back,' but some things make me question it. I don't know if I want some people to know that I am happy. I think a lot of people want to take it away from you, and that's really scary.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • World
  • Happy

• I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for myself. Like I said, when I was 14 years old, I decided to quit. I didn't ever want to do it again.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Child

• I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Good
  • Done
  • Identity

• I see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together: black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with disabilities, all pledging allegiance under the same proud flag to this big, bold country that we love. That's what I see. That's the America I know!

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Women

• I don't care what the critics say or think because I care for and love my fans.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Think
  • Fans
  • Say

• In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world had shifted to the right.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • World
  • End
  • Dreams

• We must do our part to end poverty in Korea so that the next generation doesn't experience what we are going through now.

  

  Park Chung-hee
  • Experience
  • Poverty
  • End

• It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Wisdom
  • Performance
  • Measure

• We are all souls, and what I have learnt so far is that while God is male, the souls created by Him are female, so I always had women as my theme, as they are dedicated to Him.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • God
  • Women
  • Always

• I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Up
  • War
  • Feeling

• People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.

  

  Karen Allen
  • People
  • Movie
  • Man

• Marrakech in May is unseasonably tagine-hot.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • May

• It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Time
  • Voice
  • Silent

• I figure this current era of history is the one with the best chance of quality of life for a black, female, disabled, middle-aged, queer person who's most comfortable not fitting in. The odds still aren't great, mind you. But I'll take my chances with the 21st century.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Life
  • Great
  • Mind

• For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.

  

  Cao Yu
  • Life
  • Best
  • Short

• Money has no moral opinions.

  

  Abraham Polonsky
  • Money
  • Moral
  • Opinions

• There's no place like home. And I do miss my home.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Home
  • Like
  • Place

• Jerusalem is not just a beautiful city: the challenge is to show that Jerusalem can be shared in peace and respect.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Beautiful
  • Respect
  • Peace

• I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Art
  • Inspire
  • Bores

• All my big heroes are literary, writers. I'd love to meet Jimmy Hendrix or John Coltrane, but I'd much rather meet Thomas Wolfe, or F. Scott Fitzgerald. Words and books have always meant a lot to me. That someone can take words and string them together to where they will move me is just a hell of a thing. It's amazing to me; more amazing to me than music or painting. It's always been the written word or the spoken word, like a great lecture or a great lyric, or a great poem. To me it's just amazing. And I always aspire toward capturing that, or my version of it.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Book
  • Together
  • Moving

• You don't have to be dowdy to be a Christian.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • You
  • Christian

• As my family saw them, men were untrustworthy, weak, and selfish. Our mother taught us to get along without them, to get along without much of anything, and to live well and have fun anyway.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Men
  • Live
  • Family

• I'm not a coach and I know it. I'm too busy and it doesn't pay. I'm expensive. But I would always advise.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Know
  • Always
  • Busy