Caster Semenya Quotes
To me, I can be famous in sports. But to me, I cannot say it means a lot to be famous. Being famous is something I don't like.
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I've got nothing very original to say myself.
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Being famous has changed a lot, because now there's so many outlets, between magazines, TV shows, and the Internet, for people to stalk and follow you. We created the monster.
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I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.
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I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal.
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I like music a lot.
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You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me.
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I want to be in 'Glee', but I'm told I'm not famous enough to be a cameo yet.
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No one teaches you how to be a famous person; no one teaches you how to be a role model. It's something you have to do on your own.
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I had a very famous trainer tell me once, 'You can usually train a wild animal but never tame a wild animal, ever.' They are always going to be wild, no matter what anybody says.
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I don't trust a lot of journalists.
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It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say.
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I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.
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When you've finished reading every last thing by a famous writer, literary convention holds that you move on to his or her letters, the DVD extras peddled by publishers.
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When I'm called unkind... that really cuts to the quick. You can say anything else that you like about me.
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I love Fall Fashion Week because it means lots of layering, long sweaters and vintage coats.
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I want to get so famous that I don't have to wake up in the morning. It'll probably never happen.
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There's no question that jihad historically means war.
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I love going to art galleries. The Tate Modern is one of my favourite things to do. But I don't invest in the history of it and I don't read up on it. I am a guy who would buy a print rather than buy an original.
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Education is a way of empowering people; it opens up so many doors and is fundamental to everybody. And teachers are not often appreciated in the way that they should be.
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I have a couple of all-time favorites: Donny Hathaway and Roberta Flack, Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell.
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Ethics is a detergent word, used time and time again to clean consciences without scrubbing.
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To me, I can be famous in sports. But to me, I cannot say it means a lot to be famous. Being famous is something I don't like.
