Linford Christie Quotes

I know what it takes to get to the top.

Linford Christie

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• I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Friends

• Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future.

  

  Tarja Halonen
  • Power
  • Future
  • Miracle

• I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Think
  • Religion
  • Human

• As important as the presidency is, that's not the only thing to take a look at in determining the racial health of the United States.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • Important
  • Health
  • Racial

• Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Free
  • Know
  • Slavery

• My favorite prayer is Footprints in the Sand. You know that prayer? I know the times that he carried me, you know? I kind of wore him out.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Me
  • Prayer
  • Sand

• Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Information
  • Charge
  • Flow

• I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • People
  • Want
  • Lyrics

• If I take enough pictures, I'm going to get a good one, and I know not to stop at a bad one.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Know

• Even though my shoes are different from Ferragamo's aesthetic, which is more classic, I learned the importance of fit and quality. We were making shoes like they used to, by hand, and I carried that with me.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Different
  • Me
  • Hand

• Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Change
  • Only
  • Inevitable

• I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Think
  • Science
  • Movies

• My best investment is my imagination, because it has never failed to bring me my greatest returns!

  

  Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe
  • Best
  • Imagination
  • Greatest

• I consider myself someone who takes a lot of beauty risks, and I've realized what I liar I am. I change my hair a lot, from blue to blonde to bald, but I'm trying to branch out a little more with makeup.

  

  Halsey
  • Trying
  • Change
  • Myself

• My job is to look out on that world that I write about and be as honest as I possibly can about that world. If that's optimistic and uplifting, OK. If it's not, OK.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • Job
  • Write

• The West Indians and Pakistanis play one-day cricket so well because they play for English counties.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Play
  • English
  • Cricket

• I grew up in musical theatre and love to perform on stage.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Up
  • Love
  • Theatre

• Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Important
  • Religion
  • Discipline

• Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Up
  • Work
  • Doing

• Nothing can last forever. There isn't any memory, no matter how intense, that doesn't fade out at last.

  

  Juan Rulfo
  • Forever
  • Memories
  • Matter

• I couldn't meet his gaze. I stared at the table just behind him--the mess of cards on it, the lantern giving off its quiet glow. "When you gave me your shirt to wear that night, I could feel you. I could feel your essence." The world went still. We were standing only inches from each other, not touching. Outside, I could hear the faint murmur of the wind blowing through the trees. "What did it feel like?" he asked in a low voice. "Like...coming home," I admitted.

  

  L.A. Weatherly
  • World
  • Home
  • Night

• These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate.

  

  Jacques Derrida
  • Question
  • Practice
  • Personality

• I am whatever was, or is, or will be; and my veil no mortal ever took up.

  

  Plutarch
  • Up

• I know what it takes to get to the top.

  

  Linford Christie