Caster Semenya Quotes
We all know that we Africans just win medals in middle and long distance, and walking in their footsteps makes me feel proud, you know.
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It's just about keeping people who are close to me, near. It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood.
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I've always thought that a good book should be either the entry point inward, to learn about yourself, or a door outward, to open you up to new worlds.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.
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See, Ebola, like all threats to humanity, it's fueled by mistrust and distraction and division. When we build barriers amongst ourselves, and we fight amongst ourselves, the virus thrives. But unlike all threats to humanity, Ebola is one where we're actually all the same. We're all in this fight together.
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You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.
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To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.
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I'm not a Facebook/Twitter gal, but my husband is.
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The Olympics have their own unique atmosphere and energy. People might say it's just the same as any other competition, but don't kid yourself. There's a hunger for victory.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
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By knowing your character so well you can't go wrong. All of us kind of fell into that.
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I admired anyone who could unsettle people.
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The X Games have done night and day for snowboarding and action sports.
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People I looked up to a lot were, you know, Oprah because she had a rough childhood but overcame so many obstacles and broke barriers to become who she is. It was really eye opening to me: just because I had a rough childhood doesn't mean that I can't make something of myself.
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If I'm in a slump, I ask myself for advice.
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It will work. I am a marketing genius.
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Out of nowhere, I became a fairly well-known director with a penchant for opera, which I did for 10 years. Then I realized I was taking myself out the theater channel, and so I re-focused on theater.
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
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It wasn't until after I was reelected in 1982 that I thought of myself as a long-term member of Congress.
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As long as a human being worries about when he will die, and what he has that is his,
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For me, music was a cathartic way to free me from the nut of Ghost. After working on set for 'Power' for 14 hours, it allowed me to pour my sanity and insanity into the music.
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Our job as actors is to just try to be as accurate and as mindful of what the audience is going through and receiving and processing.
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We all know that we Africans just win medals in middle and long distance, and walking in their footsteps makes me feel proud, you know.
