Clara Hughes Quotes

I'll skate on concrete if I have to. I'm not worried about how fast the ice is. I'm worried about how fast I can go on the ice.

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• I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.

  

  Damian McGinty
  • Live
  • Hollywood
  • Broadway

• 'Hellraiser' is an amazing world that Clive Barker created, and it is such a beautifully vibrant and surreal world within which to work. It is also not an undaunting canvas. It is a canvas created by an artist.

  

  Patrick Lussier
  • World
  • Work
  • Amazing

• Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Pain
  • Body
  • Ready

• I've sort of been an anthropologist of modern America, in a non-academic way. Whether it's Marines or Tupperware salesladies, high end audiophiles or bike couriers, I'm fascinated by the hallmarks of the American tribe.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • American
  • America
  • High

• For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Different
  • Country
  • Earth

• Along with our friends in the GCC, the first order of business is stability. Beyond the imperative of stability, the most important priority is job creation for all Bahrainis.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Important
  • Business
  • Job

• For a long time, it was believed that war was waged by armies which could not be identified with the nation itself. Professional soldiers took upon themselves the job of defending national interests, and it was understood that the war affected only them; the country itself went on living and working.

  

  Ferdinand Buisson
  • Time
  • Long
  • Country

• True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Life
  • True
  • Direction

• The high prices also highlight the fact that the U.S. is too heavily dependent on fossil fuels that we import from unstable parts of the world. To protect our national security, we must become more energy secure.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • World
  • High
  • Energy

• My passion was reading newspapers - and I became curious, in particular, about Islam and the Arab world.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • World
  • Reading
  • Passion

• In almost every photograph I have ever made, there is something I would do to complete it. I take that to be the spirit hole or the deliberate mistake that's in a Navajo rug to not be godlike, but to be human.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Mistake
  • Human
  • Almost

• We are always getting ready to live but never living.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Live
  • Living
  • Ready

• Eating by myself in my own apartment, single and alone again for the first time in many years, I should have felt, but did not feel, sad. Because I had taken the trouble to make myself a real dinner, I felt nurtured and cared for, if only by myself. Eating alone was freeing, too; I didn't have to make conversation.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Time
  • Real
  • Alone

• We do like digital projection. We like shooting on film, finishing digitally, and projection digitally. That's what I like best. It's still a movie. It's not someone's camcorder and it got projected. That's mean, I know.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Movie
  • Know
  • Best

• Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • History
  • True
  • Nature

• I often think my boyfriend is going to leave me just from seeing how I talk to the dog. But you know, when you are talking to your dog, you are accessing this softer side of you. Everything else melts away.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Think
  • Know
  • Me

• Even the good she found in him was really the goodness she had put in him, the goodness he had put on himself as a disguise in order to get her to marry him.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Good
  • She

• Waiting for the miracleThere's nothing left to do.I haven't been this happysince the end of World War II.

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • World
  • War
  • Waiting

• He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

  

  Aristotle
  • God
  • Live
  • Society

• I've never had a stylist, and I've always chosen my own clothes.

  

  Bonnie Wright

• Growing up, I was the preferred hairstylist for all of my friends.

  

  Mary J. Blige
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Growing

• I'm not a jukebox; I don't play exactly what the crowd wants to hear - that doesn't make sense. But, I do look at people requests. At the end of the day, they are the ticket payers and they are the ones that come to the show. If I played music that purely entertains me, I'd play very weird music.

  

  Armin van Buuren
  • People
  • Music
  • Weird

• We aren't consistent in our treatment of animals.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Animal
  • Treatment
  • Consistent

• I'll skate on concrete if I have to. I'm not worried about how fast the ice is. I'm worried about how fast I can go on the ice.

  

  Clara Hughes