Tyson Gay Quotes

When I grew up Carl Lewis was still running, Maurice Greene was running - he was that figure I see, like Michael Johnson. I really wanted to look up to the fast guys - so those two guys were some of the guys I looked up to.

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• I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Time
  • Women
  • History

• Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Help
  • Free
  • Education

• My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Sister

• Schizophrenia beats dining alone.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Alone
  • Schizophrenia
  • Dining

• I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Want
  • You
  • Living

• I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Never
  • Someone
  • Fast

• One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Career
  • Point
  • Committed

• Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about friends or ourselves, a fantasy about spies, or a worry about the most personal information now stored in data banks. But few of us think about secrets in general, or about the moral rights and wrongs of hiding or exposing them.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Friends
  • Worry
  • Moral

• I'm my own biggest marketing tool. I know the history of the business and I might as well capitalize on it.

  

  Raekwon
  • Business
  • History
  • Marketing

• A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Single
  • Integrity
  • Lie

• The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction.

  

  Nassau William Senior
  • Time
  • Science
  • Trust

• Russia and China completely disagree with the international order that was established after World War II, and they're trying to take it apart right before our eyes.

  

  Jack Keane
  • World
  • Trying
  • War

• They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.

  

  Gamal Abdel Nasser
  • Blood
  • Desert
  • Sand

• As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Mother
  • Child
  • Stories

• Evil report carries further than any applause.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Evil
  • Applause
  • Carries

• People want to see something that isn't necessarily somebody walking around in a superhero costume.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Want
  • Walking

• We must restrict the anonymity behind which people hide to commit crimes. As citizens, we have a right to privacy. We have no such right to anonymity.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • People
  • Privacy
  • Behind

• I need to mature a bit - then I might have something to show for it.

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • Need
  • Something
  • Mature

• You were in the midst of a chaotic, unfair, didn't-know-how-it-was-going-to-end story, and the only thing you could do was... keep moving.

  

  Lynn Good
  • Moving

• Somehow, I had the feeling that I was responsible for Harry being dead. I remembered all the times that I wished he were dead, all the times I had dreamed of killing him. I got to thinking that maybe my wishing had finally killed him.

  

  Arnold Rothstein
  • Thinking
  • Feeling

• If you grew up in a household with a football coach who looks like a drill sergeant, you would think you would be tough.

  

  Brett Favre
  • Up
  • Football

• When I got my record deal at Atlantic, at the time, 'indie' wasn't a style of music: it was a kind of label. And I think, eventually, the bands that ended up on those labels began to be branded as 'indie bands,' and then it became a genre.

  

  Kristian Bush Sugarland
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• Women are the first witnesses to the resurrection and pillars of the early church.

  

  John Ortberg
  • Women
  • Church

• When I grew up Carl Lewis was still running, Maurice Greene was running - he was that figure I see, like Michael Johnson. I really wanted to look up to the fast guys - so those two guys were some of the guys I looked up to.

  

  Tyson Gay
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