Haile Gebrselassie Quotes
I was the kind of child who worked hard every day with the cows and sheep - I was a very aggressive boy.
Quotes to Explore
-
I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
-
I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!
-
People take things so seriously.
-
I worked at CNN for almost 26 years. I worked in Mutual Radio for 20 years. I've been in the business 57 years. I have never seen a bias off the air or on.
-
I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
-
I said if I have a No. 1, I'll do a naked photo shoot! I'm not sure a lot of people would like to see that, but it was more to the fans, really. Every gig I do, they try to get me to take my clothes off, so it's a promise to them - if I get a No. 1, I'll happily do a naked shoot.
-
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
-
It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
-
People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
-
I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.
-
When I'm in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.
-
The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
-
Normally, I don't like explaining songs. I don't want to kill anyone's interpretation or the story they want to make for themselves.
-
As a brand, Ahla is one of Strauss-Elite's strongest. But we need to do a lot of marketing in order to regain market leadership. I have no doubt that we will do that, even if it takes time.
-
And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
-
I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
-
Nowadays, with much more racial and ethnic mixing, we are seeing serial killers murdering a variety of victims; whoever comes along will most likely do.
-
I think Hugh Laurie is awesome. You just want to loathe that guy in 'House' because he is not a friendly person, but somehow or another, he is profoundly charming.
-
All the musicians I loved growing up were men. I loved Leonard Cohen, Mick Jagger. I loved Alex Turner from the Arctic Monkeys. Even today, I love Van McCann from Catfish and the Bottlemen and Matt Healy from The 1975.
-
Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.
-
I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random times.
-
Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.
-
Frankly, I don't like publicity.
-
I was the kind of child who worked hard every day with the cows and sheep - I was a very aggressive boy.
