Haile Gebrselassie Quotes

My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.

Haile Gebrselassie

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• I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that area.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Baby
  • Born
  • Texas

• I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Myself
  • Like
  • Others

• I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father time in there.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Fun

• If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Great
  • Home
  • Doubt

• Even a cock crows over his own dunghill.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Own
  • Over
  • His

• There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Difference
  • Victim
  • Bully

• I love the road, and I love coming in contact with the fans. They talk to me and that's irreplaceable. But when I get tired, I head to the studio and I am in there for a long time.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Time
  • Long
  • Love

• We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Wife
  • Rule
  • Fine

• I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Great
  • Done
  • Book

• You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Heart
  • She
  • Truth

• When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Myself
  • Singing
  • Listening

• I think it's important to experience kindness so that you can experience it more in the future. I believe that patterns of emotional behavior are set down before adolescence. And I think that if you have not observed kindness, you will not recognize it. You have to experience kindness in order to be kind.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Experience

• It's really important, especially for young girls, to see that if you fall down, you get back up. If you get sick, you get back up. People are going to say what they want.

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • Up
  • Important

• People don't get my sense of humour.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • People
  • Sense
  • Humour

• Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Sex
  • Dying
  • Generation

• There was an ingredient used in perfumes and remedies in the Middle Ages called 'momie' that is certainly one of the most fascinating I've come across.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Used
  • Remedies
  • Middle Ages

• Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Deal
  • Regulations

• I'm a real girly-girl.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Real
  • Girl
  • Girly

• In March 1950, in New York City, I was married to Marietta Soffer. We have three children: Vilhelm, Tomas, and Margrethe.

  

  Aage Bohr
  • Children
  • City
  • New York

• A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive.

  

  Peter Drucker
  • Knowledge
  • Management

• Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived with us. I picked up quite a bit of family lore and history from her, which was interesting.

  

  John Hume
  • Up
  • Family
  • History

• Every time I go back to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute to wait for my test results, and I wonder if I've relapsed or if I'm doing okay, I don't think about my company. I'm proud of everything we've done, but at the end of the day, it comes back to family. I'm still a wife, a mom, a sister - all of those things.

  

  Kathy Giusti
  • Time
  • Family
  • Done

• This is one of my favorite pick up strategies: I'm constantly giving women my keys. So far, none of them have shown up. Matter of time. And I've been robbed twice.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Up
  • Time
  • Women

• My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Time
  • Father
  • Sensible