Alan Webb Quotes

I was thinking I would surprise these guys and get a big enough lead that they couldn't catch me. I didn't stay as focused the last 400 meters. I was out in front on my own for so long, I sort of lulled myself to sleep.

Alan Webb

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• I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally.

  

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• The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.

  

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• I allow my intuition to lead my path.

  

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• If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.

  

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• The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes us. It isn't just 'Here's the facts - boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.' It's how you tell it.

  

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• Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.

  

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• All the things that most kids hated, I loved. I loved that things were asked of me and that, much to my surprise, I was able to do them. I loved the 10 o'clock bedtime. I loved the responsibility.

  

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• For kids, multitasking electronically is common. But they are totally focused. You can tell a good story, and they listen.

  

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• Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.

  

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• The best live recordings capture elements of surprise onstage.

  

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• I like to surprise people. I try to take risks.

  

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• I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.

  

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• It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.

  

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• I couldn't possibly lead the kind of life I lead, and keep the schedule that I do, having radiation or chemotherapy.

  

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• I think music naturally wants to be played with more than one person. There's a surprise element, and you don't know what it will be, and it's up to that other person's energy to help create this third thing.

  

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• We're so very focused on ourselves and on self-promotion. It goes on all day with Facebook and Twitter and Instagram.

  

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• When you talk about avant-garde cuisine, the surprise factor is really important. For example, I love looking at blogs and the photos, but I'm not that keen on other people taking photos of my dishes.

  

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• Back in the 1700s, the people of Tennessee wanted to become a state, but there was not a lot of action or movement in the bullpen so that Tennessee could transition as a state.

  

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• I was raised Jewish, my wife was raised Catholic. Though we respect each other's heritage, and while many of our friends are deeply religious, we have chosen to focus on our similarities, not our differences. We teach our children compassion, charity, honesty and the benefits of hard work.

  

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• I am an independent, strong-willed, free, and unfettered individual who lets his wife decide for him what he wants to eat.

  

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• I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.

  

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• I was thinking I would surprise these guys and get a big enough lead that they couldn't catch me. I didn't stay as focused the last 400 meters. I was out in front on my own for so long, I sort of lulled myself to sleep.

  

  Alan Webb
  • Surprise
  • Lead
  • Focused