Caster Semenya Quotes
I know how I look like. I know how I sound. I know how I walk. I'm just gonna be me. I do me, and you do you.
Quotes to Explore
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To allot God a secondary place in life was, to me, inconceivable. Though He is the sole Owner of the cosmos, silently showering us with gifts from life to life, one thing yet remains which He does not own, and which each human heart is empowered to withhold or bestow - man's love.
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I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.
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Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.
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Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.
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Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.
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I always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it's like I try so hard and then people still say I'm offbeat. I've learnt to accept that and take advantage of it as an actor.
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There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up.
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GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she's fearless and she's ahead of the game. She's ahead of the entire game, and I admire that.
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I got lost but look what I found.
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After running for a while, things really start to open up in your body. I felt like I'd tapped into parts of my body that I hadn't before. I let things in the universe flow through me that opened me up in a really cool way.
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I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.
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I'm interested in fashion; I buy fairly good pieces, and I think as I've gotten older, I've pared down a lot.
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Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother.
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The presumption of innocence, the benefit of the doubt, walking without worrying - these should not be hallmarks of white privilege. They are human rights - human rights - that should be enjoyed by all.
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I don't have a process; I just feel it. My book on acting would be very short.
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Through teaching myself how to be happy and get through things, I hope I can also do that for other people.
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The zeitgeist is for cutting spending and balancing the budget. But I do not want the Republican Party to be perceived as putting the budget ahead of people, jobs and education.
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Of course, I have to consider that I've written a lot of prose, but I do in my heart think of myself as being originally, and still primarily, a poet.
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My mom would give me a piece to play, but I wouldn't do any theory because when it came time to do it I would sneak back upstairs and watch TV. So, I had these kind of nonchalant lessons for years, then it just started soaking in.
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I was naturalized right before Pearl Harbor. Nine days later, I would have been classified as an enemy alien. I might have been sent to a camp.
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The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a poor-spirited coward.
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We have been involved in racing for so long, it is astonishing we were not born with hooves.
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A deal of the world's sound happiness is lost through Shyness.
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I know how I look like. I know how I sound. I know how I walk. I'm just gonna be me. I do me, and you do you.
