Linford Christie Quotes

I have got better things to do in working with my athletes who I feel are going to be involved in 2012.

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• I was just taking pictures to see what they looked like. Just for the fun of it. It wasn't about anything in some cases. Some of them were just about the joy of opening up an aperture and seeing what shows up.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Joy

• On privacy issues, it's just like hundreds of years ago when people said, 'I would rather put my money under my pillow than in a bank.' But today, banks know how to protect money much better than you do. Today, we may not have the answers to privacy issues, but I believe our young people will come up with the solutions.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• Although my mother didn't necessarily approve of teenage girls wearing heels, she made an exception for me when I was 14 because she didn't want me to be self-conscious about my height - or to slouch.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • She
  • Mother
  • Want

• I made a clean version of 'Enter the Ninja' that my mom can listen to.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Mom
  • Listen
  • Clean

• I definitely don't see myself as much of a singer, because my upbringing is really based around the guitar, learning chord progressions and that sort of thing. So the singing aspect of what I do has been a secondary adventure.

  

  M. Ward
  • Learning
  • Myself
  • Singing

• I won't be making any friends in the corporate suites.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Friends
  • Making
  • Corporate

• Bulk collection of phone records didn't find or stop the Tsarnaev brothers from the massacre in Boston. In fact, one might argue that all of the money spent on bulk collection takes money away from human analysts that might have noticed the older brother's trip to become radicalized in Chechnya.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Money
  • Stop
  • Brother

• Even now, when I try and think of band names just randomly, I'm so thankful that 'fun.' is the name of the band. I never really think twice about it. It is so simple and so easy.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Fun
  • Simple
  • Band

• Why do guests always end up in the kitchen at parties? Is it a social phenomenon? Some strange gravitational pull? I don't know, but one thing is for sure: If your friends are going to congregate in your kitchen, you'd better make it as nice as possible.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Up
  • Why
  • Friends

• My popularity has to do with the divorce between modern art, where everything is obscure, and the viewer who often feels he needs a professor to tell them whether it's good or not. I believe a painting has to talk directly to the viewer, with composition, color and design, without a professor to explain it.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Art

• I think the Supreme Court does have the authority, which is not used, to declare a blanket right for all people, all adults.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • People
  • Think
  • Blanket

• Because I know that time is always time And place is always and only place And what is actual is actual only for one time And only for one place I rejoice that things are as they are and I renounce the blessèd face

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Time

• The presidency has a funny way of making a person feel the need to pray.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Funny

• Only the skilled can judge the skilfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Value
  • Judge
  • Judging

• Did I have a responsibility to discuss issues? Absolutely. Bobby Dylan was discussing issues – Disney wasn’t.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Responsibility
  • Disney

• Your righteous eyes, your laconic trigger-fingers people the streets with villains: as you move, the air in front of you blossoms with targets and you leave behind you a heroic trail of desolation: beer bottles slaughtered by the side of the road, bird- skulls bleaching in the sunset.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • People
  • Eyes
  • Air

• In my photography, I always lean towards the underprivileged because that's where I came from. When I went to the wars, I attempted to go and stand by those who were being trodden on. By that, I mean people like the Palestinians. When I go to India, I see really the poorest people, and I tend to be drawn to them.

  

  Don McCullin
  • People
  • Photography

• A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.

  

  Frank Shorter
  • Time
  • Good
  • Done

• I'm not comfortable singing in front of people yet. That's going to take another 100 performances.

  

  David Friedman
  • People
  • Singing

• I had other offers, but that message weighed a lot in my decision.

  

  Gelson Martins
  • Decision
  • Message
  • Weight

• I always admire people who have passion.

  

  Lesley Nicol
  • People
  • Passion

• I think that not being loved by your parents or not having a brother or not being liked at school or even wearing glasses can be a lot worse than having a famous father.

  

  Kim Wilde
  • School
  • Father
  • Parents

• There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Strong
  • Never
  • Jealousy

• I have got better things to do in working with my athletes who I feel are going to be involved in 2012.

  

  Linford Christie