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.
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Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.
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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.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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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.'
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One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
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I'm my own biggest marketing tool. I know the history of the business and I might as well capitalize on it.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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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.
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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.
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They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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Evil report carries further than any applause.
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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.
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I need to mature a bit - then I might have something to show for it.
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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.
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War is being declared tomorrow here so perhaps you can understand that I have been working under difficulties, but difficulties negligible compared with what others have to go through.
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In my heart, I'm so far from done.
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The biggest place I look for validation is from my mother. That's the little girl in me that will never grow up.
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For me, I've never talked about my private life. It's always been about Black Sabbath. It's strange to open up and talk about me as a young lad, my relationships, marriages and what not.
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I spent so much of my time when I was growing up just worrying about what people thought of me, about my appearance, how I should act in school, how to... be popular and all that rubbish. Stop worrying about everything. Everything's going to be okay.
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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.
