Lynn Davies Quotes
Long jumping sounds simple - you run fast and jump well. But it is about getting all the technical bits right.
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New York is one of the greatest cities in the world. It is a fitting host to its many international visitors, who can come to witness first-hand what a vibrant multicultural democracy looks like.
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.
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The vampires in the 'VAMPS' series judge each other as harshly as they judge humans, and basically, vampires don't get along very well. So you've got a culture that's from cradle to grave like the worst high school you've ever been in.
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I try to stay focused.
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There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.
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I'm a slow starter.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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Music is like my security blanket.
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Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all about.
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Libertarians understand a very simple fact of life: Government doesn't work. It can't deliver the mail on time, it doesn't keep our cities safe, it doesn't educate our children properly.
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I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.
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Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
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I loved wrestling in Philly. It was such an exciting time in my life. That really helped me grow and think differently. It was also just a lot of fun.
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I took the longest showers of my life after every time I visited Gramacho. It affects the personality of the catadores. They always dress really well, they're very sharp, and when they go out they always wear a lot of perfume because they're very conscious of the possibility of having the smell.
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Sometimes you have to understand your place.
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Eradicate poverty. This is all that matters in my country. When I am out training I think about this a lot; when I am running it is going over in my mind. As a country we cannot move forward until we eradicate poverty.
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When I wear high heels I have a great vocabulary and I speak in paragraphs. I'm more eloquent. I plan to wear them more often.
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If I'm two pounds heavier, I'm fat. If I'm skinnier, I'm sick. It's ridiculous. And that's not coming from agents or designers.
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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
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Born on a different cloudfrom the ones that have burst round townIt's no surprise to methat yer classless, clever and free.
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There is a very definite Russian heart in me; that never dies. I think you're born and you live your life with it and you die with it. I'm very much an American - my books tend to be about American things, but inside there's that sort of tortured, long-suffering, aching, constantly analysing Russian soul underneath the happy American exterior.
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Long jumping sounds simple - you run fast and jump well. But it is about getting all the technical bits right.
