Zola Budd Quotes
I found them uncomfortable and after that I decided to continue running barefoot because I found it more comfortable. I felt more in touch with what was happening - I could actually feel the track.
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I believed I was invincible.
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I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.
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I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
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On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us.
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The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.
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I'm more the sort of person who doesn't like hugging strangers because we don't know each other, so we shouldn't.
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I know you think that when you're 35, 45, 55, you'll be different. But I'm going to let you in on a bit of a secret. You're going to look different, and your life is going to be different, but in your head you'll always be that 16-year-old girl.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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When I was depressed, nobody expected anything of me, nor did I expect anything of myself. I was exempt from life's demands and risks. But if I were to find new life, who knows what daunting tasks I might be required to take on?
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I mean, I would have loved to have kept on being a big television star. If that's the way things would have broke, I would have loved to have done that. I just didn't really want to continue and be someone who took whatever was offered.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
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I need to be very isolated to write, and unfortunately isolation is often quite difficult to find. My ideal writing environment would be a country house hotel in the middle of nowhere, with full room service.
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One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.
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I have thought about the next steps, and you know, they still don't know that I can dance. They don't know it, and it's frustrating me because I feel that it's an edge that I have, and I'm not talking about I took this hip hop class, I'm talking about this is how people actually know me.
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The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.
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I would love to work on a Bond film.
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I do not support a North American Union. I disagree fundamentally with that, and I think the United States should be governing itself and not being governed by multilateral unions, the United Nations.
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There are repercussions to everything, even advancement and success. And I think that the repercussions to my success was the loss of my marriage.
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Wherever and whenever I sing, if there is only one spiritual on a program, people will talk about two things afterward, and one of them will be the spiritual. What I bring to this is the best of my classical training - not all of it. I apply what is appropriate.
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Our wills and fates do so contrary run, That our devices still are overthrown; Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.
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You need to be comfortable with yourself first and then decide what you want to achieve.
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I found them uncomfortable and after that I decided to continue running barefoot because I found it more comfortable. I felt more in touch with what was happening - I could actually feel the track.
