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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Anything can be changed. Anything can be fixed. Things that are broken can be fixed. And you don’t have to be some billionaire or millionaire to do it. You just have to be a person with a vision and the passion to do it, and be willing to fight for it every day.
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I think watching multi-events is much worse than competing. Especially when you have vested interests because you go through the emotional ups and downs.
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Red lipstick aside, I firmly believe that less is more in terms of make-up.
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I have good stamina and good endurance.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
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With athletes, it's never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport.
