Allyson Felix Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
-
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.
-
I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
-
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.
-
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.
-
History is not hatred.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
You take the good with the bad and try not to listen to everything said about you because you know it's not good.
-
There is always going to be a little bit of me in each character.
-
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.
-
With a horror movie, you don't want to anticipate where things are going to go.
-
I've always wanted to be a singer.
-
A bad peace is even worse than war.
-
Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.
-
The only way to become authentically powerful is to create authentic power. You cannot wish, want, or command authentic power into your life, although you can try.
-
We do not postpone the participation of the lower classes of our people in the profits of economic enterprise, and in other countries, they do postpone it. In the long run, I think our policy is better, and we stand by it.
-
...I want my spirituality to rid me of hate, not give me reason for it.
-
I've got an idea for a modern day faerie tale that I think would made a great short novel. But I just don't have the time to work on it right now. I'm way too busy with the 'Kingkiller Chronicles' and being a new dad.
-
Understanding that yes, we are committing more resources than we thought we might be in protecting our homeland and prosecuting a war and so it's understandable that we would be going through a period of deficits.
-
A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be understood. But it is true that if we look at a glass of wine closely enough we see the entire universe.
-
To me our music is like Jamaican stuff - if they can't hear it, they're not supposed to hear it. It's not for them if they can't understand it.
-
I'm just competitive. It doesn't matter what it is. I want to win.
