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 like independent films... European films. I do go and see popular films as well because my kids force me.
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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 do suspect that this world is hell.
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I wouldn't be able to do the songs as long as I've been doing if I didn't feel the pulse of the world. But I can feel people and I know what they want. I feel like I know how they are, because I am the people. And I just have a gift.
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Gays don't have a lot of testosterone. I'm talking about that they use both sides of their brain. Straight men only use one side. Gay men are very bright, very handsome... they put themselves better together. They dress good, they decorate, they clean, they cook.
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What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.
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I was making almost minimum wage on 'The Young and the Restless.' But it was my first job, so I accepted my first quote. I had a great time on it, and it obviously led me to better things.
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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.
