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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Many people focus on my power and talk about my power, but I have many more qualities in the ring. I like to surprise everyone.
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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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I'm a big baseball fan, and I feel proprietary about the Dodgers. I'm not the owner. I'm not the manager. But I feel passionate about the decisions that they make, and I take it personally when they make decisions I don't like.
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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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All women's issues are to some degree men's issues and all men's issues are to some degree women's issues because when either sex wins unilaterally both sexes lose.
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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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When you've been raised in care, rap music isn't just about guns and sexism. They're talking about real things you can hang on to, problems of identity that you have sympathy with. It's not just about the music, with rap: when I was in care, it meant a whole lot more than that.
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The best way to develop courage is to set a goal and achieve it, make a promise and keep it.
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When I finally held the trophy, it was just how I imagined it would be.
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I'm a professional, and I know what I have to do. I know where I've failed and how I've grown up.
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When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
