Linford Christie Quotes
Some of today's athletes do not have that kind of pride. They left school at 16, have never had a job in their life and are getting Lottery funding, earning money as an athlete.
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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Now that I have kids, I don't want to do so many daredevily things anymore.
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I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
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We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality.
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Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
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I think politics today is all about false choices: You can have a robust energy economy and a challenged environment, or a great environment and no economy. That's a false choice. You can do both.
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I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney and Emma Thompson - character actresses who have something to say. I also said that I loved Madeline Kahn and Jessica Lange.
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I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
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I just love a challenge, and always have, and will do anything to make it interesting. I'll try anything, really, as long as it's a challenge and you can have some fun doing it.
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Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
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An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
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Actors really are the scum of the earth. Their behavior makes overpaid rock stars look positively noble.
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...entrepreneurship, resulting in large-scale job creation, was the only viable mechanism for eradicating poverty in societies.
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If you have a coach helping you, developing your skills alongside you, that's when you're on your way to becoming not just a participant but achieving.
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When you talk about mandatory minimums, it created a lot of unfairness in our sentencing.
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I really think the Uberfication of everything is a trend that I didn't expect to be coming this fast. I mean, every single thing you want to do in your life, people are building services to take all the pain out.
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Some of today's athletes do not have that kind of pride. They left school at 16, have never had a job in their life and are getting Lottery funding, earning money as an athlete.
