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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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 a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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I have made that one of my policies never to play anything that I've already put on record.
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The alt right is a disinfo group designed to discredit Trump and to frustrate his agenda, which is why David Duke and all those guys go around saying they're pro Trump.
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Always grow flowers, as that will make your way full of flowers. Never grow thorns, as that will make your way thorny. Never want to target someone on an arrow. You may become the target of that arrow. Never make a well in the way of someone. As you may pass by that way sometime.
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'This Means War' is up there with 'Hail to the King' in terms of crowd reaction and kids chanting for it.
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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.
