Asafa Powell Quotes
I just want to give my best in London, I want to cross that line and see a personal best on the clock then I will see what position I am in.
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It is absolutely unacceptable to think that in the last year of the president's term, that he should stop doing his job, and he won't.
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I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition beyond that.
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My customers are successful workingwomen.
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I'm the kind of person that, if someone says, 'Oh yeah, you can't do that,' I want to then go do it.
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We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved. Your guy's acting like he's king. His dad was at a 90 percent approval rating and he lost! And the same thing can happen to him!
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We, as artists, we have the right to express ourselves. That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be somewhat responsible in what we say on records. But I think that comes with age. I think that comes with artists growing up and becoming assured of who they are as people.
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I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything.
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I like it when I am in the middle; I am closer to the ball. The manager wants me to pass, to make assists, create chances, and I do more because I think the position is more central, and I don't ask all the time for the ball at my feet.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
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I think it's important to give young people the freedom to follow their ideas and pursue their interests.
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It is our duty, as parents and as teachers, to give all children the space to build their emotional strength and provide a strong foundation for their future.
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I wrote my master's thesis on cartoons!
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Anything that's on television as often as someone on 'The X Factor' is what's successful. That doesn't mean that I condone that or think that it's right. To be honest, I'd be the first to say I think it's a shame. But if that's the way it is then that's the way it is.
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Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.
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I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I couldn't imagine myself seeking that.
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I never thought that I would sell to young people, but now girls who are 14 and 15 buy my shoes.
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From the very first, it has been the educated and intelligent of the Negro people that have led and elevated the mass, and the sole obstacles that nullified and retarded their efforts were slavery and race prejudice; for what is slavery but the legalized survival of the unfit and the nullification of the work of natural internal leadership?
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But Contra la Puerta was done mostly in the opposite way, starting with sounds and melodies.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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I don't want to spend all my time working as an activist. I don't get satisfaction out of it. I'd rather be doing something else. I'm a musician.
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I just want to give my best in London, I want to cross that line and see a personal best on the clock then I will see what position I am in.
