Lee Pearson Quotes
For me, Paralympic sport isn't about being the best human being. It's about being the best human being with that particular level of disability.
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You must consider, when reading this treatise, that mental perception, because connected with matter, is subject to conditions similar to those to which physical perception is subject.
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Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
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I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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Opening acts are hard, really hard. There's more politics involved than music, sometimes.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.
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In nature there are few sharp lines.
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We found the appetite for 'Frontline' has only grown as the digital landscape has exploded. The appetite for the reporting we do on our digital platforms to the short films we're doing for our Facebook and YouTube channels. And we're still producing these remarkable long-form films.
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I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
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I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books!
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The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
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Sometimes if a song hits me really good the first time, I get sick of it. And by the 10th time I've heard it, it's just candy, and I don't like it anymore.
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What happened in Queensland is that people are facing high unemployment relative to other states - 5.7 per cent when I last checked.
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I am frequently attacked.
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I get up 5:30-6 every morning. I'm in the gym. I run a couple miles.
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Some people may have their doubts about me. But I feel like there's no shot too hard for me to take.
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If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.
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I tried to bang down a lot of doors but Virgin were the only label who believed in what I was doing. I ended up with the label that understood what I was trying to do.
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Imagine stepping into the shoes of Roberto Duran, one of the most legendary boxers in the history of the sport, and definitely the most legendary Latin American boxer, and then having 'Raging Bull' in my corner. I mean, imagine that? Just having Robert De Niro to play the trainer in the movie, that was fantastic.
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The Everton goal was very important. It was the one that got us through, and it was great to go into the crowd and celebrate with the fans.
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I have always loved music; whoso has skill in this art, is of a good temperament, fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools; a schoolmaster ought to have skill in music, or I would not regard him; neither should we ordain young men as preachers, unless they have been well exercised in music.
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The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.
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For me, Paralympic sport isn't about being the best human being. It's about being the best human being with that particular level of disability.
