Haile Gebrselassie Quotes
When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.
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We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.
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I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.
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If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
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You kind of forget he's Peter Jackson in a way because he's so normal; he's lovely. It's like having a friend direct you, except it's Peter Jackson.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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Live every day as if it's going to be your last, and one day, you'll be right.
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.
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I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
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But it's a very universal story and the thing is I was reluctant to answer that question because I don't want people latching on to a particular stereotype.
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Some kids go walking in the mountains, but I just went to the cinema. So when I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, even though this wasn't normal for Arab kids or anyone in the town, they were sort of expecting it and were very supportive.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.
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Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.
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What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But I've no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that as a politician, fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house.
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If you’re not able to fly, then run; If you are not able to run, then walk; If you are not able to walk; then just crawl; Nothing matters…. Moving towards your destination is that which matters
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It's usually the stupid people that develop long illnesses. You need more than indolence and selfishness, you need endurance to make a good patient.
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We live within this reality we create, and we're quite unaware of how we create the reality.
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When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.
