Haile Gebrselassie Quotes
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This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
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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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Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
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Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.
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Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.
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I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
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For me, writing about hotels is like writing about being in a parallel universe. The sense of voyeurism, and the sense of removedness, and there are all these people silently above you and next to you.
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Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
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I think when it comes to pop I'm past the point of curiosity. I admit to a full-on obsession with it, and I think it's getting worse, actually.
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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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'Press Your Luck' was probably the most exciting because of the unpredictability of the game and how I won on one of the three days on the very last spin against all odds. It was one of those great unpredictable game show moments.
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The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in Europe a 'sleeping dictionary.' Of course, I have only been married five times, and I speak seven languages. I'm still trying to remember where I picked up the other two.
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I don't care who's on the label, because I have a job to do.
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That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there to take you away from your problems, and rock and roll all night and party every day for those two hours you're at the concert.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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As Governor, I will demand that Colorado's government serves the taxpayers of Colorado, not special interest groups and government bureaucrats.
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I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.
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I love doing girly stuff with my mum or with Sophia. I took Sophia and a couple of her friends to the Hello Kitty spa. They had chocolate facials and Hello Kitty mani-pedis. I put it on my Twitter and got lots of abuse for it, but I think it's just a nice girly thing.
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I'd like to work with horses, but it doesn't pay very well. Maybe I'd like to go somewhere in the Middle East because they keep buying really nice horses for their Olympic teams - like, the Qataris.
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I had been working in colour for ten years or so and looked at digital and liked the possibilities it gave me.
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Sochi will be my third Olympics, and I'm coming into these games in a stronger position than I've been in years past.
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In 'Tree of Life,' the cinematography records a small story, a celebration of the courage of everyday life. But it does it so up close and so effortlessly that it has the effect of elevating the intimacy of the story to a grand scale.
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When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
