Allyson Felix Quotes
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.
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Life is hard. It is. And it's like, I don't want anybody feeling any pain.
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I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand what we see by comparing it with something else, something that we think we understand better. But what we compare it with turns out to have a huge influence on the outcome.
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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
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History is not hatred.
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Church was a requirement - there was no choice in the matter; so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.
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All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.
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What else does a manager do but push buttons? He doesn't hit, he doesn't run, he doesn't throw, and he doesn't catch the ball. A manager has twenty-five players, or twenty-five buttons, and he selects which one he'll use, or push, that day. The manager who presses the right buttons most often is the one who wins the most games.
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One of the things we found out as we filmed with people who dealt with chimps, and with all animals, and it's really incredible, is their levels of intelligence that we don't recognize right away.
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You take the good with the bad and try not to listen to everything said about you because you know it's not good.
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There is always going to be a little bit of me in each character.
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It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.
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With a horror movie, you don't want to anticipate where things are going to go.
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I've always wanted to be a singer.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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Violence against the other, and the way we otherize people out of fear, has to be examined across the board.
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Everyone was thinking it was going to be a bust. I felt redeemed.
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Mike Amiri is like my brother.
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Coincidence is a recognized element in 'real life.' All of us have anecdotes about those times when, by the merest coincidence, we avoided some disaster or stumbled onto some wonderful experience.
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But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count.
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I'm just competitive. It doesn't matter what it is. I want to win.
