Caster Semenya Quotes

I am of the firm view that there is no impediment to me competing in athletics competitions.

Caster Semenya

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• Socially, Philadelphia was still a fairly provincial city, its business community governed by the mores of the Main Line. Politically, it was a cauldron of ethnic rivalries, dominated by competing Irish and Italian constituencies.

  

  Andrea Mitchell
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• We are competing against ourselves. There's 28 million people who have Brooks & Dunn CDs ... The challenge is to come up with Brooks & Dunn music that's not something they've got already. That's what we are really up against.

  

  Leon Eric Brooks III Brooks & Dunn
  • People
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• In America, we believe that competition strengthens us.

  

  Sarah Palin
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• Lack of resources (payroll), time and competing priorities are why so many nonprofits haven't done well. It's that simple.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Simple
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• We've separated from mogul and aerial skiing and we've built our own sport and our own tricks. And now we're going back to the roots. But the Olympics is a world stage for athletics and it's going to be pretty sweet to represent our sport and represent our culture and show everyone what we're all about.

  

  Nicholas Charles Goepper
  • World
  • Culture
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• I think that these were the best competitions, higher than Olympics.

  

  Alexey Leonov
  • Best
  • Olympics
  • Competitions

• What sense would it make to classify a man as handicapped because he is in a wheelchair today, if he is expected to be walking again in a month, and competing in track meets before the year is out? Yet Americans are generally given 'class' labels on the basis of their transient location in the income stream. If most Americans do not stay in the same broad income bracket for even a decade, their repeatedly changing 'class' makes class itself a nebulous concept. Yet the intelligentsia are habituated, if not addicted, to seeing the world in class terms.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • World
  • Men
  • Today

• Ultimately when you have the perspective of why you're competing and what you're trying to pursue, the rest just falls into place.

  

  David Boudia
  • Trying
  • Perspective
  • Pursue

• One of the main techniques I used was focusing on the goal and visualising myself competing in the race before the race started.

  

  Michael Johnson
  • Started
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  • Techniques

• The first professional game of your career is obviously the biggest, but you still get the jitters, you still get the adrenaline rush before every game. A lot of people don't realize that, but it's true. I have always told myself that if you don't feel those nerves and you're not having fun, you shouldn't be playing. And I always enjoy the competition, the adrenaline rush before a game. And just competing with your buddies at the highest level, every day.

  

  Mike Trout
  • People
  • Realizing
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• Hundreds upon hundreds of news outlets - okay, thousands - are interested in following the happenings at the White House. Yet the number of news sources at the White House - people who know what's happening - is finite. Dozens maybe. With that imbalance hanging over the enterprise, it's hard for a group of reporters competing against one another to secure the upper hand.

  

  Erik Wemple
  • People
  • Enterprise
  • Competing

• The transition between competing paradigms cannot be made a step at a time, forced by logic and neutral experience. Like the gestalt switch, it must occur all at once (though not necessarily in an instant) or not at all.

  

  Thomas Kuhn
  • Logic
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• I think that a huge positive that's come out of me having successful competitions as an athlete has been that, through the years it's become less and less about personal victory and more about strengthening a platform for me to have a voice in the world and I could really talk about anything I wanted to and I've chosen to make my voice be heard and be recognized for some of the charities that I really care about and work very closely with.

  

  Evan Lysacek
  • Voice
  • Successful
  • Victory

• We are going to sign a treaty with Mexico. We are competing internationally. We need another international airport for international cargo, international travel, international businesses.

  

  Richard M. Daley
  • Travel
  • International
  • Competing

• Well, what there ought to be is an international labor organization, a confederation of the trade unions of all the countries speaking for the workers who are competing with one another, and talking about the difference in wage levels between, say, Europe and Indonesia.

  

  Richard Rorty
  • Organization
  • Difference
  • Between

• A lion is called a 'king of beasts' obviously for a reason.

  

  Jack Hanna
  • Reason
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  • Lion

• We're more interested in someone writing a really great answer that's going to be read by thousands or tens of thousands of people over the next few years as it stays on Quora and as it gets distributed on the Internet.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• I am not ready to fit into the mould of commercial cinema.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Cinema
  • Commercial
  • Mould

• A growing number of respectable scientists are defecting from the evolutionist camp.....moreover, for the most part these "experts" have abandoned Darwinism, not on the basis of religious faith or biblical persuasions, but on strictly scientific grounds, and in some instances, regretfully.

  

  Wolfgang Smith
  • Religious
  • Evolution
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• Before Barack Obama took office, it looked like that pride could have vanished forever, but today, from the staggering depths of the Great Recession, the nation has had 29 straight months of job growth. Workers across my state and across the country are getting back the dignity of a good job and a good salary.

  

  Ted Strickland
  • Good
  • Great
  • Country

• Qatar Airways is still a young airline; however, the achievements we have made in this short time frame are a tribute to the commitment, drive, and perseverance of our staff and nation. I am optimistic that our growth will continue and that we will serve even more countries around the world.

  

  Akbar Al Baker
  • World
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• Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.

  

  Joshua L. Liebman
  • Values
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• I am of the firm view that there is no impediment to me competing in athletics competitions.

  

  Caster Semenya
  • Competing
  • Athletics
  • Competitions