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.Abebe Bikila
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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.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
D. H. Lawrence -
The human genome contains so much data that, it has been calculated, it would fill 43 volumes of Webster's International Dictionary.
Iain McGilchrist -
Being made in the image of God, man was the crown of creation.
Walter Lang -
Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives.
Imogen Cunningham -
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.
Zadie Smith
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I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.
Sam Rockwell -
Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
Vince Gill -
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.
Carlton Cuse -
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.
Patrick O'Brian -
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.
Joanne Rowling -
Conflict is the pursuit of truth.
Patrick Lencioni
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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.
Nancy Gibbs -
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.
N. K. Jemisin -
We've all got strange things about us and Lynch picks those things up.
Jack Nance -
The theme of counterfeits, of those that produce and sell them, has always been part of the culture of M.I.A. When I was contacted by Versace, it seemed a great idea to invert the circle. Versace's designs have always been copied; now it's Versace that copies the copies, so those that copy must copy the copies. So this will continue.
M.I.A. -
Writing tends to cheer me; it always soothes my spirit and blesses me with the gift of an innocent, tender, childlike day. It is the sensation of having spent a few hours in my homeland, with my customs, free whims, my total freedom.
Gabriela Mistral -
I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition's an opportunity to have an audience.
Al Pacino
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The greatest tragedy in life is not to die, it is to live as if dead, to let the life within us wither. Toward what goal or achievement are we striving in life? This is the important question to ask ourselves.
Daisaku Ikeda -
I made history here by landing the first triple axel for a U.S. lady, third at the Olympics, and that's a big deal.
Mirai Nagasu -
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.
Abebe Bikila