Haile Gebrselassie Quotes
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Don't assume that the answers are out there in the form of somebody else already doing something. Sometimes they are. But you have to think beyond that.
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I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.
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When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something; they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.
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Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.
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I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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The first show I worked on was 'In Living Color.' I think 'The Daily Show' was the culmination of having that point of view - being able to look at this third rail in our society.
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I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
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One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought.
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As his talent expands, some of his stories become pointed social commentary; some are surprisingly effective religious tracts, disguised as science fiction. Others still are nostalgic vignettes, but under it all is still Bradbury, the poet of 20th-century neurosis.
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Human nature is above all things lazy.
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If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
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I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.
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Creating a role is an interesting thing - each show or each situation is different.
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I didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.
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The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government.
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I'm lucky I live near Whole Foods... so if I'm hungry, I can walk in there and grab something yummy... already made... or make it myself. I love to cook. I make a killer marinara sauce.
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I was really naïve. I had no idea artists made money.
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If you're planning only to make money and nothing else, you'll be broke.
