Gail Devers Quotes
People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.Gail Devers
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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I'm so excited to be working on 'Doctor Who,' as it's such a big and important part of British culture.
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When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.
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Inspire your children. I promise, your kids will think you're cool if you do this. They may not tell you that now, but they'll thank you later in life.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
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The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.
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Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.
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Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
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I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.
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I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.
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People get caught up in worshipping certain rappers, or they try to demonise hip hop by looking at what certain rappers are doin' in their lives.
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The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.
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Focus on long term success but be willing to make short term adjustments to get there
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Reading and discovering fiction has taught me how to empathise, understand falling in love and all those complex relationships that people have to deal with.
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People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.
Gail Devers
