Wyomia Tyus Quotes
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If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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I knew that I wanted to write about a very young woman because I wanted to see the eyes of the art world in a fresh or even slightly naive way. Because there's something very honest about entering a room and not having a read on everyone there.
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New Hampshire understands the need to pursue modern and long-term energy strategies that will help lower costs, protect our natural resources, and create good jobs.
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We should have an inclusive growth model in India. Agro-interest is also as important as industrial interest.
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I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it.
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I may as well say it, I have been married three times.
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I was a huge Mike Tyson fan growing up; his fights were always on in my house.
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I'm interested in all forms of performance, yet I think it's difficult to be as equally talented in all of them as they call for such different skills. At the moment, I still feel I'm learning and want as much experience and variety as possible.
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Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.
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I had a terrible job letting me do anything that wasn't comedy.
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It's always hard, after you've been in command, to take a lesser role.
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I feel curious about every situation I'm in.
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I went to Washington to ask for a little residual payment for the people who had written films in the early, early days, people who never got any residuals on tapes or anything at all.
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Any hound a porcupine nudgesCan't be blamed for harboring grudges.I know one hound that laughed all winterAt a porcupine that sat on a splinter.
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The first day I was in a daze thinking, ‘What am I doing? What’s my role?’ and then slowly we started writing with each other, and it was great. It took me way back to my high school days when I was playing in a rock band.
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So you went looking for a myth and found a man.
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That was the trouble with moving houses; no matter how carefully you packed the books, they never ended up on the new shelves in quite the right place.
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A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own choosing, without permitting outside influences to discourage or mislead him.
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I don't claim to be an expert on this, but I think ADD and creativity may be the same thing; it's just that they can't sell you drugs for being creative. Seriously, the world needs people whose minds constantly wander, because that's how great ideas are stumbled upon.
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What is success? I think the most important thing is to achieve what you set out to achieve. Just being a CEO in itself is not success. I would not relate success to a title or a position. My career has had a level of serendipity all along. I've never planned anything out more than a few years.
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My mother was a consulting dietician, and my father was a consulting engineer.
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My father used to tell us, 'You will have to work twice as hard to get what you want.
