Alberto Juantorena Quotes

Then I received support from the Government to compete for my country, and to represent Cuba in competition.

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• All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Family
  • Dream
  • Los Angeles

• I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Light
  • Show
  • Darkness

• I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.

  

  Barbara McClintock
  • Great
  • Pleasure
  • Plants

• Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Voice
  • Looking
  • Conscience

• One of the things I love about acting is that I can enter into these other people's lives. But going back to being me at the end of the day is very important, too. That process of remembering who I am.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • People
  • Things
  • Acting

• I wouldn't mind going somewhere and taking a president position and signing acts and taking the attention off of me and taking what I've learned in my career and applying that to another person's.

  

  T.I.
  • Mind
  • Career
  • Attention

• Novels are longer than life.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Life
  • Novels
  • Longer

• I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Worry
  • Idea
  • Often

• From early morning to late at night, it's such an interesting life, and I'm healthy and free, and that's not so easy with a family.

  

  Olav Thon
  • Life
  • Family
  • Night

• The best way to look stylish on a budget is to try second-hand, bargain hunting, and vintage.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Hand
  • Best
  • Look

• There are many challenges in the global education ecosystem: from top-down systemic issues in how educational services are organized and delivered, to bottom-up issues of curriculum effectiveness, accountability, and human resource allocation.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Up
  • Education
  • Human

• I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.

  

  Cao Cao
  • World
  • Me
  • Rather

• I want to do that. That's my goal. I want to become a legend.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Want
  • Goal
  • Legend

• Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Journey

• You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Want
  • Know
  • Promise

• There was never any question that I would go to college, that I would travel, that I would go to the theater early and often.

  

  Harold Prince
  • College
  • Question
  • Never

• At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • School
  • Friends
  • Only

• The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Man
  • Morning

• Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

  

  Mary Shelley
  • Mind
  • May
  • Soul

• I'm no wizard, and I don't like being thought of in that light at all. I think of a wizard as being some sort of magician or something, doing something on the sly or something, and I don't want to be thought of in that way.

  

  John Wooden
  • Light

• I don't see myself as competing with other actresses. I mean, I went through a time when I was in New York, and I was going to lots of auditions and trying to get parts, but even then, you're not really competing with the other actresses. There is a competition going on, but it's not like something you can win in that way.

  

  Annette Bening
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Competition

• My wedding dress was featured by 'Vogue' and 'American Town and Country,' and from there, people started to come to us because they had seen that dress.

  

  Emilia Wickstead
  • People
  • Country
  • American

• Then I received support from the Government to compete for my country, and to represent Cuba in competition.

  

  Alberto Juantorena
  • Country
  • Support
  • Competition