Carl Lewis Quotes

When I decided to go for four gold medals I planned it out over a few years. It was in four different events and there was a lot to it.

Carl Lewis

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• The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.

  

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• I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?

  

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• If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.

  

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• Emilia Clarke has beautiful brunette hair.

  

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• Most people inside the bureau believe that the blown opportunities to head off 9/11 would not recur today. Even among the FBI's doubters, few disagree that the bureau has come a long way.

  

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• As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.

  

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• The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.

  

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• Hungarian communists were the most talented. They convinced everybody that reforming the communist party was better than making a new party.

  

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• For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.

  

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• The son-of-a-bitch would shoot me just to make book on which way I'd fall!

  

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• I've been having a lot of fun exploring different aspects of filmmaking, like writing and producing. There isn't a specific plan and I usually don't know what's going to be the next thing I do.

  

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• When I decided to go for four gold medals I planned it out over a few years. It was in four different events and there was a lot to it.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Different
  • Gold
  • Planned