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 not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
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Every word we speak calls on 37 muscles and thousands of nerves. It's not surprising that sometimes these nerves and muscles fail us.
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I feel like in an interview situation, it's a kind of intimacy that I can understand and handle - versus in real life, when I'm much more of a bumbler and have a hard time.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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Fortunately, good policy, true principles, and effective leadership work whenever they are tried. When we reduce government, balance budgets, and keep taxes as low as possible, states respond in a positive way.
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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.
