Paavo Nurmi Quotes
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.
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When a pointed question is beaten back with an attack or threat of, 'How dare you...' it's a reliable signal that deception is involved. Trump is a master at this.
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Breaking up is hard to do... so it's essential to keep getting wiser - and wiser - about what healthy love is all about.
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My kitchen looks like the one from my childhood - very homey, with a little bit of Alice in Wonderland!
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When you're fighting with a stunt person, your intent is to miss.
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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
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I have been celibate for about six or seven months, I think. I would rather just make out and kiss someone instead of sex. I'm single. I said I would be single for a year and I am.
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I'm home schooled, and I have a teacher that goes with me on all my movies.
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I love working in Canada. The ovation is great. It makes me feel like I'm the top dog.
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Barbra Streisand, for one, is one of my idols. I've listened to her since I was a little kid - the first album I ever bought was 'A Star is Born' with Kris Kristofferson.
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I would never do 'Stardust Memories' because I don't particularly like that kind of movie - that would be why I wouldn't do that.
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It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people.
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Jasmine is just the most delicate and beautiful scent.
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I definitely like the mystery of not knowing how things will turn out, you know.
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With all due respect to the people who made the motorcycle movies during the '60s, I felt the sophistication level could be a bit higher, and I felt I could raise the bar on that, too.
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Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
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All I really want to do is plays - and that's a New York thing.
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It was August 28th, 1963, and the greatest civil rights coalition in modern history had descended upon Washington. Hundreds of thousands of protesters trekked through the heat, stretching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial.
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If I tried to somehow wrap my head around the fact that Francis Ford Coppola directed my first movie, there's never a slot into which that ever fits in your mind.
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You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
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As a coach, one thing that used to frustrate me was one player would make a bad decision, and that's all you would read about in the papers all over the country. We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it.
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Life's short, you know? Especially as an athlete. Your career is very short, and you use the opportunities that you have because you're not going to have them again.
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The athlete must make a devotion of his specialty.
