Carl Lewis Quotes
Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You always want to beat someone.

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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.
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I want to see sunrises in the mountains. You never get to see such things enough in a lifetime. I want to see more.
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If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.
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Wanted: a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say 'No,' though all the world say 'Yes.'
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I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
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I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.
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People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'
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You begin to realize that the genius of our country is the constant push to be more inclusive and find new ways of engaging everyone.
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I'm not the most technical producer, so the weird mixes and blown-out sound happen naturally.
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I am definitely a dog person. I feel like Webster and I are very much alike.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.
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There's nothing like taking two flights when you have a horrible hangover. It's bad when people can see actual alcohol seeping out of your disgusting pores.
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For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.
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I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and my mom is good at budgeting things. That made me appreciate things.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. I'm not a politician.
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I know it sounds ridiculous, but I haven't quite got over the miracle that you plant things, and they do sprout up.
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The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.
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Incremental increases in the minimum wage won't address the underlying skills and investment gaps in Illinois.
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Though it was never a goal in life, it has occurred to me that I've met six presidents of the United States. OK, I met four of them before they became president, including Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, No. 43.
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To do what you wanna do, to leave a mark - in a way that you think is important and lasting - that's a life well-lived.
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If you take every challenge everyone has in their life and multiply it in severity you get what it's like in the life of an actor.
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Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You always want to beat someone.