Caster Semenya Quotes
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I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps.
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When readers close the covers on 'Running the Rift,' I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth.
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When there's a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces.
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Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
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Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
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What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
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I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.
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There's nothing more American than movies.
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One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.
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I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.
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Running for office is similar to being a trial lawyer in a very long trial. It requires adrenaline and stamina; it requires being in shape mentally and emotionally. It's a marathon.
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Nothing happens in any legislative body that's not purposeful.
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Most visions of extraterrestrial life are actually steeped in human hubris. The fictional extraterrestrials of 'Star Trek' or a hundred other space operas are less alien than many of my neighbors. And funny, the ones running the place are mostly WASPish men.
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I'm a massive yoga head. Lots of yoga and lots of running. I do Bikram yoga. I adore it.
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And then after that, running around the bases, it was just one of those things. You couldn't believe what happened to you. And I look back on it, it's almost like it happened to somebody else.
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Without promotion, something terrible happens... nothing!
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Formally, I did my studies in the sciences, but I was very conscious that I was being deprived of culture. While studying neuroscience, I was running a rock-music festival and was able to use that as a platform to explore what it takes to produce art for 20,000 inebriated 20-somethings.
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That could certainly be done, but I don't want to fall into the Forth trap, where every running Forth implementation is really a different language.
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You can create a good impression on yourself by being right . . . but for creating a good impression on others there's nothing to beat being totally and catastrophically wrong.
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Christmas is God lighting a candle; and you don't light a candle in a room that's already full of sunlight. You light a candle in a room that's so murky that the candle, when lit, reveals just how bad things really are.
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What I do enjoy is the creative process.
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It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.
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My wife accuses me - and she's probably right - that I'm sometimes oversensitive.
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For me, running is nothing. Honestly, it's nothing.
