Abebe Bikila Quotes
Men of success meet with tragedy. It was the will of God that I won the Olympics, and it was the will of God that I met with my accident. I accepted those victories as I accept this tragedy. I have to accept both circumstances as facts of life and live happily.
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When we were younger, we sang at the dinner table. We started doing two part harmony, then three part, and then we added back up tapes and instruments.
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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
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For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.
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The human genome contains so much data that, it has been calculated, it would fill 43 volumes of Webster's International Dictionary.
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Being made in the image of God, man was the crown of creation.
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Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives.
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My three obsessions are mental illness, horror and religion.
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I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.
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I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.
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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That's what inspired the 'Off to the Races' melodies. That's one of the times when you're feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.
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The experience of reading a book is always unique. I believe that you render a version of the story, when you read a book, in a way that is unique and special to each person who reads it.
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Take a newspaper account of Waterloo or Trafalgar, with all the small advertisements: it seems much more real than reading about it in a history book.
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My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had a hot temper and a burning ambition to be a writer.
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Conflict is the pursuit of truth.
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In the weeks after 9/11, out of the pain and the fear there arose also grace and gratitude, eruptions of intense kindness that occurred everywhere, a sharp resolve to just be better, bigger, to shed the nonsense, rise to the occasion.
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This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic, wink at technology, fill us all with the sensawunda that comes of gazing upon a fictional world and seeing something truly different from our own.
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We've all got strange things about us and Lynch picks those things up.
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Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.
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There are a lot of lessons that people can take from me, that they can start to apply because I don't think that I can beat the Democrat Media Complex by myself.
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Children are sweet as the buds in spring, But I've noticed that those who have them Have nothing but trouble all their lives.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
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Tragedy is the oldest form of theatre.
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Men of success meet with tragedy. It was the will of God that I won the Olympics, and it was the will of God that I met with my accident. I accepted those victories as I accept this tragedy. I have to accept both circumstances as facts of life and live happily.
