Linford Christie Quotes
I don't think there are really enough meetings in Britain for our athletes to compete properly, and because of this a lot of the talent we have has been stunted.
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You don't want to meet anybody in Cannes. It's the worst place, I think, to meet somebody - one of the worst places.
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I don't want to be a bust.
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The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
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Everybody has their own story - it's who you are. If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am!
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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The best thing we can do to help small-business owners succeed is cut spending.
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A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.
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I had no work after 'Gangster' for two years, and my sister Rangoli met with an accident that destroyed her looks. My struggle with my parents combined with the industry not accepting me made me feel alienated.
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America has much greatness left in her.
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I am a morning writer; I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty, when I go for a swim. Then I come back, have lunch, and read in the afternoon until I take my walk for the next day's writing.
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I want to show that theater isn't just talking about feelings or people wearing tights.
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I have nothing but contempt for Gadhafi. I'm not a Gadhafi supporter in any way. However, it's not clear to me that it's a vital and compelling national security objective of the United States that we ought to use military force to remove him from power. He's not the only unpleasant and unsavory dictator in the world.
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I had been carpooling kids for 33 years.
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We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.
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Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something with the wonders of the world around me.
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What you have to understand is that blues... it's in a line from the oldest forms of African music. If you're playing it like it's an echo of the past, it would be a lot less exciting, but this music lives today.
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Music was my one way to vent.
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There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.
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In the right circumstances, I'm a big fan of eating alone. Often, on a Sunday evening, I go to a yoga class whose charm is largely that it gives me an alibi to avoid cooking family supper for once. I return to have boiled eggs and soldiers in silence with a book. Bliss.
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Unless you are very rich and very eccentric, you will not enjoy the luxury of a computer in your own home.
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I was a Tina Turner fan growing up.
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I travel abroad constantly on book promotion and research, and the Internet is invaluable to me for accessing U.K. news in places such as America, which most of the time hasn't heard of England.
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My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue, an everlasting vision of the ever changing view.
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I don't think there are really enough meetings in Britain for our athletes to compete properly, and because of this a lot of the talent we have has been stunted.
