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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool.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 don't have a copy of my books, and the degree to which I never read them is profound. I never look.
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I've worked with very few directors who've asked of me what I asked of myself.
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I'm not a supermodel. I make the best of what I've got.
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Today, television is the most powerful medium in the world. Tomorrow it will also be the most personal. There is no one future for television. It will be defined differently for everyone.
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I don't think we should see the world of books as fundamentally separate from the world of the Internet. Yes, the Internet contains a lot of videos of squirrels riding skateboards, but it can also be a place that facilitates big conversations about books.
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I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best.
