Haile Gebrselassie Quotes
In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning, at a championship you don't need a time just to win the race.
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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
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When all are wrong, everyone is right.
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People just don't sit down and watch shows live anymore. They DVR it. They stream it; they watch it on Netflix or iTunes.
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I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking.
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As most actors/actresses, I don't like to watch my own movies, either, and I never look at the dailys while filming.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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I love high heels from the age of 10! Short skirts and then high heels. My classmates used to make fun of me. Like, 'Ooh, she's so skinny and she's wearing high heels.' But I just wore what I like, and I didn't care about people's opinions, the same as I don't care now.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
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Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
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With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wracking when you're new and you're just trying to find your legs on something, but it's exciting, too, because that's what we work so hard for.
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I would never write a sentence that didn't have a nice rhythm, or at least I wouldn't leave it to be published like that. It seems to me that prose mustn't be prosaic.
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Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.
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A lot of my work concerns a crisis of agency - what can we do?
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Jesus is a personal symbol of the Holy Spirit. Having been totally healed by the Holy Spirit, Jesus became one with him. Every thought, action, and deed of Jesus was guided by the Holy Spirit instead of ego.
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Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.
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As though a tongueless nightingale should swellHer throat in vain, and die, heart-stifled, in her dell.
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I got on a horse when I was about 12 years of age, and started galloping around. my mother came up said "where did you learn to ride a horse?" I said "this is the first time I've ever been on a horse" I just knew, I just felt the horse.
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As long as we find that the energy impact is only temporary ... my guess is that the effects on the overall economy will be fairly modest.
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In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning, at a championship you don't need a time just to win the race.
