Haile Gebrselassie Quotes
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My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think that for those of us who write, when we find a wonderful book written by someone else, we don't really get jealous, we get inspired, and that's kind of the mark of what a good writer is.
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If an ordinary person parks outside another ordinary person's house for a week, it's considered stalking. If, however, that person is considered newsworthy, it's perfectly legal for paparazzi to do the same thing.
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In the past, in the '60s and '70s, genres were much more segmented. You had action guys who were deadly serious about it, and I think you had comics that were comics.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
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I am supposed to set an example to young players.
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Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
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Soderbergh is a very respectable director that manages to have an incredible amount of freedom in a system that doesn't allow anybody to be free as he is on a set. And he will jump from 'Solaris' to 'Ocean's Twelve' and 'Thirteen.'
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It could be fun to sing with Prince or Michael Jackson. Justin Timberlake has an amazing new sound now.
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I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'
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People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.
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I try to work on a film that my audiences would appreciate and enjoy their time in a theatre.
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I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir.
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If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.
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In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state.
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I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day.
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Math is my favorite subject. It's the universal language. I like the fact that wherever you go in the whole world, two plus two will still be four.
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You don't start shooting rockets at Israel and expect that we'll just sit back supinely and die.
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Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
