Mo Farah Quotes

Look at my success. I didn't achieve it overnight. It has been the product of many years' struggle, and every year, my times have shown gradual improvement.

Mo Farah

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: March 23, 1983

Topics

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There is sometimes a feeling in crime fiction that good writing gets in the way of story. I have never felt that way. All you have is language. Why write beneath yourself? It's an act of respect for the reader as much as yourself.

John Connolly

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I lived in Saudi Arabia in the late 1970s. It was, for a Westerner, pretty idyllic. There were the religious police; there were the rules; there were the prayer times. But it was as if we were existing in two separate universes. The Westerners were just allowed to get on with their way of life.

Robert Lacey

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Phone screens are too small to properly appreciate YouTube videos.

Ann Makosinski

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Instead of being a teacher, I got a job with a company called Bain & Co., consulting firm, and they taught me how to build businesses.

Stephen Pagliuca

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I have a lot of great memories, but I can't imagine anything more exciting than the life I have now.

Rob Lowe

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Vladimir Putin is only going to respond to action, strength, and resolve. He's not going to respond to words.

Ron Johnson

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I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys.

Marvin Gaye

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My secret vice is Sudoku puzzles. Can't stop playing them. My parents are accountants. I blame them entirely.

Lisa Gardner

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When we decided to go to Cuba to perform, we did it because we just wanted to build a bridge, you know, between Cuba and the rest of the community. And we just wanted to prove that music and art need to be over all ideology or way to think life, and we just wanted to go in there and play just because of love.

Juanes

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My mom always taught me - you know, little boys listen to their moms too much - that whatever you put into something is what you're going to get out of it.

Jay-Z

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I grew really fast. It's true I went from 5'6" to 6'1" in six months in 8th grade. By the end of 8th grade, I was 6'1". Everyone was freaking out.

Dot Jones

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The first war movie I ever saw was 'Platoon,' and I was eight months pregnant. So my husband, producer Charles Roven, wasn't sure I'd make it.

Dawn Steel

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