Allyson Felix Quotes
The 200 meters is my baby. To me, it's the perfect distance. It's still a true sprint, but it unravels more. You get to enjoy the race a little bit more than the 100.
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I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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The military is a machine of war. Not a law enforcement agency.
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If I pop off and do something drastic, everyone's going to realise because they know I'm 50. Anyway, middle-aged women are sensational.
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I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.
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The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
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We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.
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'Single' is usually applied to women as though they are a problem to be fixed.
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
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I have had the good fortune to be able to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. I have enjoyed the freedom I had gained from building a successful business from scratch, making some money, and creating the lifestyle I wanted.
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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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There is no problem a library card can't solve.
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You have to allow your mind to create and then if you want to censor something and bring it down or point it in a different direction, then you can do it.
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I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved.
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Somewhere down the line, the evil ones stole the legacy of hip hop and flipped it to a corporate type of hip hop. They decided to tell everybody 'Well, this is what hip hop is,' instead of coming back to the pioneers and getting the true definition of what hip hop is and what it was and what we been pushing for all these years.
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People think I hate the Royal Family, but that's not true.
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The 200 meters is my baby. To me, it's the perfect distance. It's still a true sprint, but it unravels more. You get to enjoy the race a little bit more than the 100.
