Oscar Pistorius Quotes
I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment.
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I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
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I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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I would love to be a role model.
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Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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I ran for Congress in 2012 because I had had enough. Enough of career politicians, enough of political gamesmanship, and enough of the lack of leadership in Washington.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
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Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
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I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.
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I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else.
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I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
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There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.
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I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.
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I am so romantic about Gypsies. They're not allowed to do anything until they get married. So they all get married really young, at sixteen.
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I don't know how many roles I can ask my dad to play in my life, but so far, father, best friend, role model, mentor and grandfather to my children are working out quite well.
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I sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death.
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Jesus walking on water is an allegory, not fluid mechanics. God destroying the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah is a warning, not a historical battle. Doubting Thomas is an example, not a person. The story of Noah, with all of its scientific and historical impossibilities, can be read the same way.
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I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment.
