Haile Gebrselassie Quotes
I know what I want when I start a marathon: to win! But what do you want? Make sure you're clear in advance and don't go out too fast.
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I loved the world of imagination.
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I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.
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I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.
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In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
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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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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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Los Angeles can be a really sad city.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it's got you.
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It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I used to always get that at school as well, 'Are you the runner girl?' I'm not even the runner girl, I'm a hurdler.
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I've always had an interest in vampire films - not just 'Nosferatu,' but there are many others that I have enjoyed: Abel Ferrara, Coppola, Neil Jordan.
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When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.
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It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. I'm not a politician.
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I think golf is literally an addiction. I'm surprised there's not Golf Anonymous.
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I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.
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My father is an Algerian, proud of who he is and I am proud that my father is Algerian.
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It's nice to film in somewhere that you actually love being. Usually, you're in a studio for months on end, and you never see any daylight, so you really make the most of it.
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Melinda Gates is a lot of fun to work with. There's some of the people skills that she's better at and cares about more. It'd be a mistake not to think of her as very numerical and interested in the science. I enjoy, if I get ahead of her, say, understanding the immune system, then we can spend a few hours, where I'm going through how amazing it is and interesting, and how that affects our creating new products, so I've always had a partner.
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Los Angeles was great fun because it was the polar opposite of Moscow in 1980. It was sunny and bright, lots of colours around, whereas Moscow was dark and oppressive.
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Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?
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Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
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Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You always want to beat someone.
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I know what I want when I start a marathon: to win! But what do you want? Make sure you're clear in advance and don't go out too fast.
