Caster Semenya Quotes

To me I don't think sport is something that I can take for life. I still have my academy, my studies.

Caster Semenya

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• Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.

  

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• I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.

  

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• We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

  

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• We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'

  

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• I had a moment where I was like, 'I'm so tired of waiting for other people to accept me.'

  

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• My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment, which frankly was a bit intimidating. But I worked hard and settled in by exploring politics and girls.

  

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• I was joking with someone about this the other day. They were like, 'You talk about Applebee's as if it was your ex.' I miss it; I miss setting up tables at 6 A.M.

  

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• There will not be a billion-shekel cut to education on my watch.

  

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• I want women to have more access to quality care, and the access to healthcare for women is not through Planned Parenthood; it is through community health centers across the state.

  

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• Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even like. They're these movies that, yes, have women in them but they really don't reflect who women are, and there's something kind of silly or shallow or gossipy about them.

  

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• I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit.

  

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• For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.

  

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• I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet.

  

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• I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.

  

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• I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.

  

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• We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

  

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• The books I like to read the most feel like they've been written by somebody who had to write them or go crazy. They had to get them out of their heads. I like that kind of urgency.

  

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• Doubt is the shadow of truth.

  

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• I've always wanted to do theater in Chicago. Chicago is a big theater town-and, in some ways, I think this city is savvier and smarter than New York. Sometimes, I think it's a little too chic to go to theater in New York these days.

  

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• Starting in the mid-'80s, I played in a band called Meat Joy, and we made our own record, toured.

  

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• E! didn't like it when we'd make fun of clips from ESPN - they'd be like, 'That's sports! That's not our audience!'

  

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• Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. I'm interested in military history, for instance, because both my grandfathers fought in World War II. I'm interested in writing because one of those grandfathers wrote books.

  

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• To me I don't think sport is something that I can take for life. I still have my academy, my studies.

  

  Caster Semenya
  • Life
  • Take
  • Sport