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

• Life is about the gray areas. Things are seldom black and white, even when we wish they were and think they should be, and I like exploring this nuanced terrain.

  

  Emily Giffin
  • Life
  • Black
  • Wish

• Knowing where you're going is all you need to get there.

  

  Frederick Carl Frieseke

• And I suggested to change very simple way to Olympic Games, in one competition, two different levels. Separate from, until sixteen, and after sixteen years old.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • Different
  • Change
  • Simple

• I've got to sing for Pops; I've got to keep my father's legacy alive because he started all of this. So I started calling people, and nobody would give me a chance, but I didn't let that stop me. I took money out the bank and I started making me a record, and I did it in this guy's basement.

  

  Mavis Staples
  • People
  • Money
  • Father

• With each of those projects I wasn't thinking about how the layout would really affect the story I was working on - it wasn't the content that was affecting the layout, it was, how I wanted to draw at that point in time.

  

  Chester Brown
  • Time
  • Thinking

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

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Time
  • Father
  • Sensible