Haile Gebrselassie Quotes
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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Polo is the most inviting sport I've ever seen.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.
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Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.
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I wasn't pampered the way a Tyrone Power was.
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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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Luckily, I work for a company that promotes on performance.
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Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
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Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.
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Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.
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In terms of the pilot, you have to introduce a lot of characters in a very short period of time, and you have to paint with slightly broad brush strokes because you just need to give an audience an idea of who these people might be.
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I think it's really important whilst you're a young actor to try as many new things as possible... to try and do something you haven't necessarily been seen doing before.
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I'm fascinated by film scores, especially film scores for children's movies because they have to be able to entertain an audience that isn't interested in music yet.
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My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the Art Institute of Chicago. I hated it.
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Zombies are apocalyptic. I think that's why people love them because we're living in, not apocalyptic times, but I think we're living in fear of the apocalyptic times.
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I'm going to do everything I can to bring our policies in line with the way families live and work today by guaranteeing paid family leave and making child care affordable.
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Whittle was an amazing chap. Tiny, stubborn, unstoppable - jet-propelled! It's amazing the impact his invention has had upon the world.
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I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best.
