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.
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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.
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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!
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People take things so seriously.
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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.
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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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.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
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I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.
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When I'm in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
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I'm totally comfortable with myself.
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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.
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Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.
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A successful entrepreneur can't be afraid of failures or setbacks. An initial setback can be a great opportunity to take a new and more promising approach to any problem, to come back stronger than ever.
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Know that you are worth so much more than the value you place on your body. It's not the only thing that defines you.
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Nation state as a fundamental unit of man's organized life has ceased to be the principal creative force: International banks and multinational corporations are acting and planning in terms that are far in advance of the political concepts of the nation-state.
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I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it.
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I was the kind of child who worked hard every day with the cows and sheep - I was a very aggressive boy.
