Haile Gebrselassie Quotes
Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country. For me sometimes it is difficult even to know who the athletes are who are competing at the highest level. There are thousands.
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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
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I live in the moment, and I reflect later.
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I am getting to that age where I am too old to play the boy next door and too young to play Uncle Fester.
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It is crucial that we develop real awareness of ourselves as citizens of Earth, linked by mutual and indissoluble bonds. When we clearly recognize this reality and ground ourselves in it, we are compelled to take a strict accounting of our way of life.
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I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
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The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
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It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
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I think people appreciate honesty.
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I feel nowadays a lot of bands can be too overly produced. There's something about the leather pants and bare bodies and Axl Rose running back and forth on a stage and going crazy. I love all that.
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In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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Our international success started out first because we became the No. 1 casual wear brand in our home market of Japan. Then, we set up stores in the world's major fashion centers of New York, Paris and London.
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But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.
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Generally, I get bad reviews in Turkey.
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I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
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Partnerships are increasingly seen through the prism of promises and expectations, and as a kind of product for consumers: satisfaction on the spot, and if not fully satisfied, return the product to the shop or replace it with a new and improved one! You don't, after all, stick to your car, or computer, or iPod, when better ones appear.
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Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.
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I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on.
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You could fire a grapefruit out of a cannon over the best law schools in the country - and that includes Chicago - and not hit an originalist.
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During childbirth and hospice I'll sing gospel songs that my grandma taught me when I was younger, or something I've made up, or I'll hum. I just play things that I think the audience will like.
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Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country. For me sometimes it is difficult even to know who the athletes are who are competing at the highest level. There are thousands.
