Clara Hughes Quotes
With athletes, it's never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport.
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I think the only way to maintain profitability is to meet the needs of the customers.
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I really wanted to make 'Everest' visceral, real. One thing that amazed me when I was scouting in base camp is the volume of Everest: It's humbling. I wanted to find a way to bring that to the screen. One way was 3D.
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Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
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The Holocaust movie is almost a genre in itself these days.
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There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.
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I love basketball players for what they do for their size - so graceful.
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Isn’t Hollywood a dump - in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement.
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It takes intelligence and training, self-discipline and fine-sensibility, to gain renewed life through leisure occupation. America now suffers spiritual poverty, and art must become more fully American life before her leisure can become culture.
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'Trouble,' he chuckled. 'What does a boy like you know about trouble? I was in trouble afore you were born. I been in trouble you don’t even got words for.'
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Whatever the lady does is wrong. I do not know of a single right decision taken by her.
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We are always living in the final days. What have you got? A hundred years or much, much less until the end of your world.
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People need realness, reality. People can sense when someone is being pretentious or fake. It's because you feel it; you see it in someone's body language.
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The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right.
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There is a long dishonourable tradition of western intellectuals who have been duped by Moscow. The list includes Bernard Shaw, the Webbs, H. G. Wells, and Andre Gide.
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The body is like a car: the older you become the more care you have to take care of it - and you don't leave a Ferrari out in the sun.
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Well, yeah, sometimes I get a little too creative.
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The only way to address terrorism is to deal with the issues that create terrorism, to resolve them where possible, and where that's not possible to ensure that there is an alternative to violence.
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When I started playing, there were no teams and no structure, so I had to play with the boys. I get very emotional when I think about the humiliation that I've suffered playing football.
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One of the many reasons I love living in New York is that we get a front row seat to the innumerable thrills that take place here - from conventions and awards shows, to parades and U.N. assemblies. But my favorite New York tradition is the annual New Year's Eve ball-drop on Times Square.
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To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach.
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America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
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A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.
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Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.
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With athletes, it's never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport.
