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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Making films is my hobby. It relaxes me; it is my life, and it's one of the best jobs in the world. I go to work and solve problems, fight robots, kill aliens, and kiss beautiful women. I'm a very lucky man.
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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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Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.
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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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I draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my job.
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Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.
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My grandmother used to discipline me, I mean, beat my ass, and I deserved them, too.
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I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.
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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.
