Allyson Felix Quotes
I am a big believer in visualization. I run through my races mentally so that I feel even more prepared.
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Presidents tend to tinker, you know, and mess everything up.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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The key to America's economic future is educating kids as early in their lives as we can.
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Critics have a job to do. They do not criticise you without reason.
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Getting to fight at the AT&T Stadium is a huge privilege for me and my career.
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I love coming to India, and I find the people out here very warm and social as compared to people in the U.S.
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I want to be in love with what I do at all times, and I want to stay in love.
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I have never thought where I will go, or forced any targets on myself.
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Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.
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Space expands or contracts in the tensions and functions through which it exists. Space is not a static, inert thing. Space is alive; space is dynamic; space is imbued with movement expressed by forces and counterforces; space vibrates and resounds with color, light and form in the rhythm of life.
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Silliness which would have broken a politician twenty years ago, now makes his fortune.
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I’ve always liked working on stories that combine people who are relatable with something insane. … The most exciting thing for me is crossing that bridge between something we know is real and something that is extraordinary. The thing for me has always been how you cross that bridge.
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I feel beautiful in love. There is a lot of love for you in the beholder's eye. That makes you feel very happy.
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Why don't you come up sometime and see me? … Come on up, I'll tell your fortune.
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This, I believe, is how the villain in modern fiction is born: a creature without compassion, without empathy.
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When you look at me on the telly and say, 'She should be on 'The Undateables,'' you are looking at a 59-year-old woman. That is what 59-year-old women who have not had work done look like. Get it?
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You hear about quality time a lot but I really think that quantity time with a person is really what strengthens a relationship. That's when you really get to know somebody. You get to know their strengths and their weaknesses and that brings you closer. That's what 'Time Is Love' is all about.
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I do not say with words. I do not say it with images either.… I do not say, I show. I show people who move and speak. That is all I know how to do, but that is my true subject.
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One of the reasons that I accepted, once asked to do Star Trek, was to give a single child a chance to see the long thought, to see themselves some 400 years hence. It occurred to me that we must ensure that we keep in front of children the ever-changing horizon.
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You kind of need to weed through who is wanting to be a true friend.
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I've come across a novel called The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, that is really remarkable because it is a kind of fantasy of West African mythology all told in West African English which, of course, is not the same as standard English.
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I am a big believer in visualization. I run through my races mentally so that I feel even more prepared.
