Caster Semenya Quotes
It's all about the hard work, knowing your strengths and weaknesses. You work on what you know you can do best. I have speed.
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It's been so amazing. I've always struggled with this barrier that I felt like I'd had up until blogging came along. Just one comment from somebody really sparks something in me. It doesn't need to be this huge war between me and the listeners anymore. I really thrive on that.
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A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
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Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
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I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
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I've heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you're transitioning into adulthood and actually becoming an adult with responsibilities and paying bills. So all of a sudden, it's like you're responsible now.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
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I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.
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My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.
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The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They've taken your Bible away from the schools. They've forbidden little children to pray. They've taken the knowledge of God as best they can, and organizations have come into court to take the knowledge of God out of the public square of America.
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We never had a huge squad and we never had a great deal of choice. But in many ways that helps because you've got to make do with what you've got. You don't have too many problems about picking the team you just hope that everyone turns up on the day.
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The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist.
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My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate.
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To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.
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I'm too tough and sensitive to have to have some pubescent twerp with his mom's earring in his tongue, who combs his hair with Redi-Whip and has an Ani DiFranco tattoo on his shin, come show me how a computer works.
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I work really hard, and have had many opportunities to give up and throw the towel in. But I never did.
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Autonomous tractors would enable a farmer to focus on the work that matters the most on a farm.
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I really want to work with Eminem. I know it will never happen, but I would love if he let me do a hook on one of his songs or he featured on one of my songs. It would be incredible. I've just always admired him since I was young.
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We're quite excited, because the audience went absolutely bananas. We did Paris (for the last DVD), and we thought we'd do Milan since we work there a lot, and it worked out really well.
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It's all about the hard work, knowing your strengths and weaknesses. You work on what you know you can do best. I have speed.
