Linford Christie Quotes
We have got to go out there and deliver, go on the streets and find athletes, improve facilities around the country and find coaches. We have got to go out there and search for a star.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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All reactionaries are paper tigers.
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The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
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Leave Jesus on the cross. He's very happy there!
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A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.
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As a writer, I was shaped by a desire to write for black people. That things were not being represented. That was my motivating force. That it has become what it has become is shocking to me. I just wanted to be able to take care of my kids.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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I can't even be around children. It's a problem. My ovaries start screaming.
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I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.
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I still have my school friends who are actually friends. It's nice that they don't think much about my singing career. They think it is cool, and they are happy for me, but they don't really bother me about it. To them, I'm still just the schoolgirl from next door.
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My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
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Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.
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Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.
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It was always my dream to write for a living.
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There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
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The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.
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I was doing quite well in Malaysia... Everyone was so excited about my music, and they started accepting me as an artist.
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There's value in being a normal person.
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Everybody keeps saying that India's a poor country. Yes, we have poverty. But I blame the government of India, the political establishment, for their failure to educate and therefore their failure to control the poverty.
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It's difficult to find a house with no map at 3 o'clock in the morning in a foreign country and where you don't speak the language.
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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.
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We have got to go out there and deliver, go on the streets and find athletes, improve facilities around the country and find coaches. We have got to go out there and search for a star.
