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.
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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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.
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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.
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Novels are longer than life.
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I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.
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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.
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The best way to look stylish on a budget is to try second-hand, bargain hunting, and vintage.
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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.
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I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
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I want to do that. That's my goal. I want to become a legend.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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I was made fun of a lot in middle school. When I was in seventh grade, the popular kids paid the most popular guy to ask me out.
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You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.
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Since the end of the Cold War, metropolitan elites everywhere have identified progress and modernity with the cornucopia of global capitalism, the consolidation of liberal democratic regimes and the secular ethic of consumerism.
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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.
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If there was one fact that sent me hurtling off to write 'Politics Lost,' it was when I learned that John Kerry had focus-grouped Abu Ghraib. We knew about the Justice Department memo in June of 2004, and Kerry didn't raise that in any one of his three debates with George Bush.
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That's been my routine for years and years... Up early before everybody else, before I get connected, before I get bugged, before I have obligations. Get the writing done first, then be the person I want to be in other ways after that.
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I want to be a good example for my son. That's the best way to parent - to be the example of what you want to see in them. That's definitely how my parents parented and how my grandparents parented. And it works.
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I feel that there is not an endlessly expandable universe of fiction readers.
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Generally, I end up being the one thrown against the wall, because Zach is the drummer. He's stronger than me.
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Then I received support from the Government to compete for my country, and to represent Cuba in competition.
