Alistair Brownlee Quotes
The great thing about running is that you can get away to your own thoughts and get in a little bubble.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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But, we didn't have all the media that we do today.
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I came to Los Angeles only after filming 'A Good Day to Die Hard,' when I was cast in the independent movie 'Delirium.' Director Lee Roy Kunz was looking everywhere for a Russian actress. He saw my photos, and only then he learned where I starred before! Eventually, I spent several months in the U.S., and we made the film quickly.
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I talk to student-athletes. I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes. You need to get an education, keep your hands clean and try to represent the university.
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If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging bits of dialogue or sentiment, then you're sort of writing a novel, really. But rock lyrics are not really known for their sophistication.
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There were periods of my life when a lot of people didn't believe in me. I still had faith in myself. I really had to ask myself life questions. Where do I see myself in five years? Create a ladder for yourself, and walk up the steps. Climb that ladder.
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The NSA has different reporting requirements for each branch of government and each of its legal authorities.
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In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.
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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
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I think that there's a clinical mental illness called depression, but I believe that post-industrial America has been narcotized by progress. There's a cultural malaise - mental illness or no - that everybody suffers from at some point in their life.
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You often see in Washington those who disagree you described as stupid or evil. It's one of the most unfortunate trends of modern political discourse. Portraying opponents as too dumb to know the truth but smart enough and wanting people to suffer.
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In terms of being a role model, I didn't start out to be one. I don't go to work every day with that in mind. But, I do get a lot of fan mail from young girls.
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When I wanted to be a music teacher, I wanted to help people through voice. Now, I get to help people out through song.
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My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldn't understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.
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The world is only as deep as we can see. This is why fools think themselves profound. This is why terror is the passion of revelation.
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The pact we have with Japan is interesting. Because if somebody attacks us, Japan does not have to help. If somebody attacks Japan, we have to help Japan.
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I don't always like writing, but I very much like having written.
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The great thing about running is that you can get away to your own thoughts and get in a little bubble.
