Haile Gebrselassie Quotes
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I don't think it is important to be a role model, because if you are a role model, you are pretending to be someone else.
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I've had many a player tell me all through high school and right up until signing day that they were coming to Alabama, then they signed with somebody else.
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Gay kids need to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and relentless bullying.
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My style is all I have. When I go on stage, that's me in my comfort zone. It's not a costume. It's just me. And I want every woman to feel that way.
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I am only a dog lover, and I have a nice fawn-colored one at home.
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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
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I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. I thought I would be a teacher, but I didn't really think about it in any practical way.
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.
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It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.
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My father and his eight siblings grew up in the kind of poverty that Americans don't like to talk about unless a natural disaster like Hurricane Katrina strikes, and then the conversation only lasts as long as the news cycle. His family squatted in shacks. The children scavenged for food.
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When a salesperson truly cares about you, trust forms, and you're more likely to buy, come back for repeat business, and refer new customers.
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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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The point of writing my name to you is that I see who you are, you see who I am... and that's what it's about.
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The situation is quite serious - groundwater is important source for water use, including drinking water, and if it gets contaminated, it's very costly and difficult to clean.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
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I am a night owl. I always have been... and I'd like to think I always will be, although surely having children will put a stop to my nightly affairs with myself.
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I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that's quite romantic.
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I think that, if anything, the pageant is great for people who suffer from body issues. It's all about being comfortable with what you're given and what you have and being able to flaunt it without being insecure. It's about empowering women, not making them feel weak or less.
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He who follows another will never overtake him.
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I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.
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I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing.
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Always, if you win mentally, you can win physically as well.
