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.
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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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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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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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Nothing surprises me. One thing I don't ever have in my world is surprise.
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It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement.
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I definitely didn't want to be that person that came out and was like, 'O.K. I'm going to lead every parade.'
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I'm still focused on the flagship businesses: Quicken Loans and RockBridge, the title company, and some of the board stuff in the gaming.
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I would love for Senator Cruz, and everyone creating fear mongering and hatred, to consider creating hope, optimism and love.
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I'm constantly preparing. Material hits me; I'm always writing. I go back and listen to my shows and just prepare and put my set together. But the day of, I like to have some downtime. A nice lunch is important for me.
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I'll always be grateful to rent collecting. I've put many of the tenants in my pictures.
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The more a man acts on his own, the more he develops himself. In large associations he is too prone to become merely an instrument.
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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.
