Carl Lewis Quotes
People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.
Quotes to Explore
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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I lived in Brooklyn from 2007 to 2012 but for the last few years have resided in Austin, Texas, where my world - especially the world of downtown - is predominantly white.
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Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.
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I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.
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More than 70 percent of seniors are asking for more time. It is long overdue for Congress to listen and make sure that seniors have a prescription drug plan that works for them.
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I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
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In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
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You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.
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I've personally never had the chance to go to Lambeau Field.
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Publishers vet books, and they do a good job keeping out the low quality. But they also miss some good quality.
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I'm completely open about the fact that I don't love every genre of metal. I like what I like. It's got to have some vocal quality and some semblance of melody.
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When it comes to working out, I really don't like the gym. I go because I have to, but I'm usually not happy about it. I do what my trainer and coaches tell me to do, but I'm always anxious to get outside.
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Practice the brotherhood, love, and cooperation insistently enjoined by hundreds of Qur'anic verses and traditions of the Prophet!
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Soul, soul is nothing. Can you see it, smell it, touch it? No.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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I would like to use stories as a springboard for children to make their own creative responses. I would like to encourage them to express themselves using music, art, film or whatever, and upload it to a website having been inspired by particular stories.
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The orbs create feedback loops that can influence either personal of employee behavior.
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Everybody knows good pitching stops good hitting. Our guys are pitching great.
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After the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanians were crazed with happiness. People who never met each other before hugged each other in the streets - convinced that tomorrow things would look different. Then came the many disappointments.
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Only individuals have a sense of responsibility.
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People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.
