Clara Hughes Quotes

With athletes, it's never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport.

Clara Hughes

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• I think the only way to maintain profitability is to meet the needs of the customers.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Think
  • Way
  • Meet

• 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.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Way
  • Find
  • Volume

• Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Creativity
  • Enthusiasm

• The Holocaust movie is almost a genre in itself these days.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Movie
  • Days
  • Holocaust

• There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.

  

  Earle Brown
  • Music
  • Political
  • Creation

• I love basketball players for what they do for their size - so graceful.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Love
  • Basketball
  • Size

• 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.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Up

• 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.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Life
  • Art
  • American

• '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.'

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Words
  • Boy

• Whatever the lady does is wrong. I do not know of a single right decision taken by her.

  

  Edward Heath
  • Single
  • Taken
  • Decision

• 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.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • World

• 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.

  

  Nick van de Wall
  • People
  • Reality
  • Fake

• The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right.

  

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

• 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.

  

  Luke Harding
  • Long

• 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.

  

  Joan Collins
  • Car
  • Sun

• Well, yeah, sometimes I get a little too creative.

  

  Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden

• 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.

  

  Cofer Black
  • Violence

• 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.

  

  Marta Vieira da Silva
  • Football
  • Emotional

• 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.

  

  Marlo Thomas
  • Balls
  • Awards
  • Conventions

• Our fans wanted us to be together way before we even realised that we had feelings for each other. Our fans helped us win a dance reality show, and so we decided to share our love with those who have made us who we are.

  

  Rithvik Dhanjani
  • Together
  • Reality
  • Dance

• My biggest weakness as a endurance athlete has been in not drinking enough water after training, thereby racing sometimes while dehydrated.

  

  Bill Rodgers
  • Water
  • Training
  • Athlete

• If you've seen 'Spirited Away', 'Spirited Away' is set in a very, very Japanese sensibility. And so, to Japanese audiences, when Sen would walk up, the main character, and look at this big building with a flag on it with Japanese writing on it, everyone in Japan would know what that is.

  

  John Lasseter
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Character

• You have to love yourself or you'll never be able to accept compliments from anyone.

  

  Dean Wareham

• With athletes, it's never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport.

  

  Clara Hughes
  • Endurance