Haile Gebrselassie Quotes
All athletes need three things: commitment, discipline and hard work. Without that it's hard to keep running.
Haile Gebrselassie
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Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in the increasingly dangerous neighborhood of the powder kegs that are the great European military powers.
Karl Liebknecht
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
Wendell Berry
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For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.
Caitlyn Jenner
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
Rabih Alameddine
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There is always shame in the creation of an expressive work, whether it's a book or a clay pot. Every artist worries about how they will be seen by others through their work. When you create, you aspire to do justice to yourself, to remake yourself, and there is always the fear that you will expose the very thing that you hoped to transform.
Rachel Cusk
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I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.
Laura Mvula
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
Manuel Puig
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I've always felt a bit hard done by in England – you know, I've won the Bisto three times in Ireland, but it has felt like nobody has even heard of me in my home country.
Kate Thompson
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
Ram Kapoor
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When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
Lao Tzu
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
Ted Koppel
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
Han Fei
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A lot of very successful businessmen share some of these sociopathic traits - a lack of empathy, seeing people as commodities, projecting an air of sincerity when everything is actually calculated.
Oscar Isaac
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From Borges, those wonderful gaucho stories from which I learned that you can be specific as to a time and place and culture and still have the work resonate with the universal themes of love, honor, duty, betrayal, etc. From Amiri Baraka, I learned that all art is political, although I don't write political plays.
August Wilson
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
Tadao Ando
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Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
S. E. Hinton
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Writing 'February' made me realize that breaking form is a way of letting the song be human.
Dar Williams
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All athletes need three things: commitment, discipline and hard work. Without that it's hard to keep running.
Haile Gebrselassie
