Carl Lewis Quotes
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The harder you work, the luckier you get.
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I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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I think it'd be great if the evening news broadcast, for instance, were unsponsored and unrated.
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Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.
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I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
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In Paris, everybody is in black! But you know, in Ukraine everyone wears bright colours.
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When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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There's no one who has been living for centuries.
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It's an interesting thing to play the heroes of our society, like cops and firefighters. They're the basic heroes that, as little boys and little girls, you look up to as the first heroes of your small, specific community.
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My high school career counsellor said I shouldn't pursue music as a career.
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I don't want to look back and say, 'Yeah, I was really successful, but I failed at fatherhood because I wasn't there.'
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I don't think I should be telling you every 10 minutes what to think. I like to leave the audience alone with the magic. I tend to trust the material, or I don't do it.
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Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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You can't live your life through your children.
