Haile Gebrselassie Quotes
I always tell young athletes the same thing, 'Wherever you go, whatever you do, what must your top priority be? Running.'
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No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.
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Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
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The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.
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Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
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People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable.
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There are different sides to me; I wanted to make a personal film but I would not want to make any film that does not reflect me in it. At least, not right now. I'm just too young to be doing that.
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In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.
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I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.
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I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.
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I went to a couple of Rangers games at the Garden, and someone at the NHL had seen me and figured I was a fan and decided to approach me about having a blog during the playoffs.
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I loved statistics from a young age. And I studied very much in Sweden. I used to be in the upper quarter of all courses I attended. But in St. John's, I was in the lower quarter. And the fact was that Indian students studied harder than we did in Sweden. They read the textbook twice, or three times or four times.
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Boys are so much less mature than girls as it is.
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In closing, let me just thank God, on the floor of the House, for not turning away from us even though we seem to be turning away from Him.
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A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
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New York has an amazing history of farming and fishing that goes right back to the Pilgrim Fathers. At its core are the four seasons, which are distinct, well-established and similar to those in Lyon, where my family lives: when it's snowing in New York, a week later it will be snowing there.
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Mom raised me all by herself, and although we went through our share of lean years, she always worked hard to make our home warm and welcoming.
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Obviously invidious and prejudicial stereotypes need to be deconstructed and overcome, but it's not that they can be destroyed. I think that would be an illusion to think that we can somehow get rid of these basic search templates that allow us to sort out our social lives and to sort out the material world as well.
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Genius inspires this thirst for fame: there is no blessing undesired by those to whom Heaven gave the means of winning it.
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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
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You now have six-year campaigns for the Senate - you never stop running. It's not uncommon for a member of the Senate to have a fundraising breakfast, a fundraising lunch and a fundraising dinner, and then when the Senate breaks for the week to go home, more fundraisers. And that's driven by the cost of campaigning.
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I always tell young athletes the same thing, 'Wherever you go, whatever you do, what must your top priority be? Running.'
