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.

Carl Lewis

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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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• What do little kids do? They crawl on the floor and they build with blocks. I just continued to do that for the rest of my life.

  

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• If I do a certain number of ads, I have to do a personal project in between, just for my own sanity. I still consider myself a punk-rock kid.

  

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• I've been really lucky that I've been exposed to a lot of lovely, talented people who are not jerks, and I would like to continue that streak.

  

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• When I was three, I didn't play with other kids very much; I was kind of isolated. I got used to be being bullied and having to think my way out of situations in the same way that other kids would fight their way out. Then I discovered a piano, and it became my playmate.

  

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• When it comes to our makeup artist asking me, 'So, what do you want today?' I'm like, 'I don't know.' I have no idea what I want that day, or I just go with what I feel.

  

  Dinah Jane Fifth Harmony
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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.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Best