Elana Meyers Quotes
I'm a representative of something that's greater than myself. When you see me out there on the track, I'm not just representing myself or my country, I'm representing Christ and what He's done through me. I have a responsibility to show His love and show others what He's done for me. It's also freed me up.
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
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I don't second-guess our playcalling or wanting to throw it. Honestly, we've got terrific guys. We know how to matchup. We know how to get open. That part of our game is so intact.
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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
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The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
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I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.
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I go home, and I'm a blob. I just lay there and don't do anything - lay by the pool with the other husbands while the wives work. It's fantastic. It's really good. That's kind of our life at home.
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Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
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A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true.
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
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I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.
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Any press is good press. So keep on ragging me.
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I think the universe just brings people around others they find to be interesting.
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Bin Laden wasn't all that central to the terrorist network any more, but taking him down created a kind of national catharsis. It's been a really, really long time since we had something to celebrate that didn't involve a sports team. I'd rather it had been a non-death-related occasion, but we'll take what we can get.
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Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.
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Those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action.
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It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
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I mean, any movie or story that makes you accept and be grateful for something about your life is doing something right.
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As an athlete, you choose your sport and are drawn into it but your passion should never be driven by fame and fortune but a desire to create something special that people will always remember.
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I'm a representative of something that's greater than myself. When you see me out there on the track, I'm not just representing myself or my country, I'm representing Christ and what He's done through me. I have a responsibility to show His love and show others what He's done for me. It's also freed me up.
