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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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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If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
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Que ton vers soit la bonne aventure Éparse au vent crispé du matinQui va fleurant la menthe et le thym…Et tout le reste est littérature.
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...it’s important to remember how fortunate we are as a country to have a currency and a bond market that is seen in every way as a source of strength and it’s a huge responsibility for us to keep it that way.
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One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African American scholars to do field research in the Caribbean and in Africa than had ever happened before in the history of the country and since.
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People get recruited from sketch groups and put on 'Mad TV' and 'SNL,' but those aren't ensembles, they're all-star teams.
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If the search for riches were sure to be successful, though I should become a groom with a whip in my hand to get them, I will do so. As the search may not be successful, I will follow after that which I love.
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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.
