Haile Gebrselassie Quotes
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I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.
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I'm more the sort of person who doesn't like hugging strangers because we don't know each other, so we shouldn't.
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There are no soft or slothful ways to become sanctified to the point that we are prepared to live in the presence of the Savior. And there can be blessings in the burdens we bear. As a result of these struggles, our souls are stretched and our spirits are strengthened. Our character becomes more Christlike as we are tried and tested.
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The bottom line is, I want us to rebound, defend, share the ball, play hard. That's all. Now if you can't do that, if that's not important enough to you, it's not on me.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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You begin to realize that the genius of our country is the constant push to be more inclusive and find new ways of engaging everyone.
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With this film, 'Need For Speed,' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it.
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Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.
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I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.
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We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting our lands and natural resources. Take the Grand Canyon for example; I'm sure that at one time it was a beautiful piece of land, and just look at the way we've let it go.
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Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.
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Little by little he came to recognize the difference between the spirits that agitated him, one from the enemy and one from God.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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There is something uniquely American about the motel: It speaks to the transient nature of America itself, one enabled and encouraged by our roads and highways.
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Brick-and-mortar at the end of the day matters because viral is great, but it comes and goes as fast.
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Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.
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I want to still be singing at 70 years old. I want to be open to the dreams I haven't even dreamed up.
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There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity.
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Absolute welfare corrupts absolutely.
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I like it, but it's yellow, and I'm like, I didn't want yellow for my engagement ring.
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I was a big fan of a writer named Jack Vance, a science fiction writer. He always wrote about these guys who were either going down a river in a strange world or would be in this one land where people acted really strange, and he'd have these interactions with them that were strange - he'd usually get run out of town or something. Then he'd end up in the next town over where the rules were totally different. And I love this stuff.
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I want to avoid injuries by running only road.
