Caster Semenya Quotes

If someone was born the way she was born, are you going to blame him, or are you going to blame God? Whose fault is that? Nobody's.

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• Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.

  

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• I try to make myself happy, no, because I know that if I'm not happy, my colleagues are not happy and my shareholders are not happy and my customers are not happy.

  

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• It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.

  

  Ian Rush
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• Those who speak up, those who use their connections, are more likely to succeed than those who sit and wait.

  

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• If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.

  

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• There are a lot of competitive girls in the industry, so you just find the ones who share your mentality.

  

  Barbara Palvin
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• You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally - your ears will know.

  

  Vikram Seth
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• A true community is not just about being geographically close to someone or part of the same social web network. It's about feeling connected and responsible for what happens. Humanity is our ultimate community, and everyone plays a crucial role.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • True
  • Feeling
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• I wanted to figure out how long to cook things. I did some experiments and then wrote a program using Mathematica to model how heat is transferred through food.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Long
  • Food
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• Not everything can be solved quickly.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Everything
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• Whether we are Christians or Muslims or nationalists or agnostics or atheists, we must first learn to forget our differences. If we have differences, let us differ in the closet; when we come out in front, let us not have anything to argue about until we get finished arguing with the man.

  

  Malcolm X

• When we give trust, we receive trust. And people who trust us pay attention to us.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • People
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• Your man with a thin skin, a vehement ambition, a scrupulous conscience, and a sanguine desire for rapid improvement is never a happy, and seldom a fortunate politician.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Happy
  • Desire
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• The tribunal here and your American newspapers talk so much about our sharp Nazi methods, but do you realize that within the past year, since the defeat of Germany, 1 million Germans have been evicted from what was originally German territory and which has now been given to Poland? No League of Nations or other body intervened.

  

  Alfred Rosenberg
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• If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.

  

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• Example is the best lesson there is.

  

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• Right knows no boundaries and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.

  

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• To say that an author is a reader or a reader an author, to see a book as a human being or a human being a book, to describe the world as text or a text as the world, are ways of naming the readers craft.

  

  Alberto Manguel
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• Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.

  

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• Cecil Forrester was heir to many misfortunes, being handsome, rich, high-born, and clever.

  

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• My son is in a band, and he's a singer, and his vocals... they're screaming-growling stuff... and he's got a pretty reasonable voice. Yet he practices really hard to get the screaming-growling thing without losing that voice every five minutes. So I'm, like, 'Hats off to you.'

  

  Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden
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• The heptathlon world record is nice, but the decathlon is the event. I think the heptathlon is more like a practice. There is something completely different about the decathlon.

  

  Ashton Eaton
  • World
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• Right now my mind is on the people who stole our instruments, and, specifically, the person with my guitar, which will no doubt end its days having Green Day songs worked out on it. A better fate was deserved - and while the reverence given to guitars annoys me, I shall miss it.

  

  Jonny Greenwood Radiohead
  • People
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• If someone was born the way she was born, are you going to blame him, or are you going to blame God? Whose fault is that? Nobody's.

  

  Caster Semenya
  • God
  • Born
  • Blame