Edwin Moses Quotes
My father was also a principal of a school and mother was a curriculum advisor. Both were educators.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I think Indians dress better than anyone, but I don't want to imitate more than a detail or two; I prefer my clothes humdrum and inconspicuous, and a cowboy hat just doesn't work for me.
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The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
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Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
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Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.
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I need to have some depth in my characters. That's why they are all Bengalis. I can't imagine writing a book with someone called Saxena as the hero.
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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I am naturally slim, actually thin. So, for years I have been trying to get some curves. I tried eating food that would increase my weight, but I only ended up putting fat around my stomach. So, now I have made peace with my body.
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Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.
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History is imperfect and biased, and it always, always has omissions. The most common omissions are the bits that the writer of that history took for granted that his readers would know.
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I talk to student-athletes. I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes. You need to get an education, keep your hands clean and try to represent the university.
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I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights.
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Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.
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You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.
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In France, for instance, one magazine writer was convinced that On The Road had been a huge influence on Lost Souls and was crushed to learn that I hadn't read the one until after I'd written the other.
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I got along better with the guys than with the girls. Only two girls came up to talk to me. Later I found out they were telling their boyfriends, 'If you talk to her, I'll kill you.' It's always rough with that high school thing.
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I hope there are going to be plenty of more roles to come.
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My father was also a principal of a school and mother was a curriculum advisor. Both were educators.
