Aries Merritt Quotes
There was a lot of wind today, so I was making a lot of mistakes. But it was a solid round, i have another round to clean it up, then hopefully in the final I can do something magical.
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
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The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire.
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I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed.
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There's no single company in the whole world that has a big-scale production base and at the same time has screening and distribution channels. Wanda Group is the first one in the world.
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The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.
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I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
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My world was completely different to other boys my age. When I was six I was earning money, and by 10 I was paying more tax than the parents of other pupils. I feel a lot older than my years. Because I was working with adults, I had to mature a lot quicker.
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
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When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parents off that I was gay.
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Gandalf is ever-present in my life. I like it.
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The honest truth is no, I don't feel like I arrived. I don't feel like I'm worthy. My publicist says I'm not supposed to say that, but I don't feel I'm there yet.
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I love walks, hiking, exploring and being on the beach.
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Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.
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No one ever chats me up; I think they all think I'm taken. Either that or no one fancies me.
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I think that 'Family Guy' is hysterical. It's edgy and hip - and they can do whatever they want to do because it's animated and they're not limited by budget.
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You are only as good as the people you dress.
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At the end of the day, an actor is only a cog in the wheel.
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I have written 13 books, full of my ideas about a variety of issues - from black women, to hip-hop culture, to the civil rights struggle. Even when I address such figures as Tupac Shakur and Bill Cosby, my ideas are quite evident.
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I am what we call a 'karma yogi' in Sanskrit. A karma yogi is somebody who believes in data. I collect a lot of data.
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It is time for someone as powerful as Barack Obama to compare the girls of Chibok to his own daughters. These girls are a symbol of our own message to girls that they should be educated, that we would go beyond the call of duty for you.
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My summers at Apple had taught me that the secret to encouraging creativity and producing the best possible product was to keep people fulfilled and happy. I wanted the people who built salesforce.com to be inspired and to feel valued.
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There was a lot of wind today, so I was making a lot of mistakes. But it was a solid round, i have another round to clean it up, then hopefully in the final I can do something magical.
