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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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You have no right to feel entitled. You are not entitled to anything.
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The book was at a reasonably high position on the New York Times... before I was in the country. I thought it would be an interesting experiment to see if my presence here would push it up or down.
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I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.
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There is a part of me that is not fulfilled by acting. It is a self-involved life; it can feel shallow, but not very often.
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Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people.
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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.
