Haile Gebrselassie Quotes
Being a great athlete is something that requires a lot of training and dedication, it does not come as easily as some people may think.
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Ask your agent to set up a meeting with either your editor or the marketing department of the house or both so you can find out what they're doing, what they aren't, and what you can do to help.
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It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.
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I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.
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Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.
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I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
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'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to watch myself sometimes. I get very critical. And people will say, 'Mara, you were five.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, but I still should have known better!' I'm a lifelong perfectionist, what can I say?
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I love chocolate chip cookies - really anything with chocolate will do!
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
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New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons!
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The human person, whose definition serves as the touchstone according to which good must be distinguished from evil, is considered as sacred, in what one might call the ritual sense of the word. It has something of that transcendental majesty which the churches of all times have given to their Gods.
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I don't like being left to my own thoughts.
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I believe in something that maybe can be defined as the God in one's heart, in the heart of every human being, but not in a God who sits on high looking down on us and taking care of us and whom we bother with things trivial and weighty so that he will be good to us and arrange things for us here.
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When I think about a book like 'A Clockwork Orange,' which I really loved, the weird hybrid language is what I remember most.
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Being a great athlete is something that requires a lot of training and dedication, it does not come as easily as some people may think.
