Caster Semenya Quotes
The way you were born is the way you were born. Nothing can change it. I've got a deep voice. I know. I might look tough, but what are you going to do? Do you think you can change it? No.
Quotes to Explore
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I write in a small office at home.
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The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and the world falls away after us. And it's just nonsense.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.
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We never wore burkas because Somalis had our own culture.
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My mom says I'm a fighter, a fierce competitor, and I think I am, too.
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Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.
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We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.
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I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?
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When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
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It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
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I have charity work that I do. I started my own charity, the Friends of the Prostate, and I'm also working on awareness of the deviated septum. I do this because not many people are interested in it. There's also Save the Funnel-web - they're dying out.
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I am proud of my kids and happy to brag about their achievements. Their success has been an immense source of happiness for me.
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The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
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'Islamism' itself is such a broad and nearly meaningless word as used by the mainstream Western press, including everything from Turkey's AKP party to al Qaeda.
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I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.
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You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you; where you hold your breath while releasing the shutter, not because you are afraid of jarring the camera, but because you are seeing with your guts wide open to the sweet pain of an image that is part of your life.
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Most people don't know how to tell stories.
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I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.
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Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment.
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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
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The way you were born is the way you were born. Nothing can change it. I've got a deep voice. I know. I might look tough, but what are you going to do? Do you think you can change it? No.
