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Oscar Pistorius Quotes

I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment.

Oscar Pistorius

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: south african
Birth: November 22, 1986

Topics

Work Hard Work Talent Feel Want

I was never the 'babe,' so I knew I'd never get those big roles. I'd always be the best friend or the quirky sidekick.

Friend Best Best Friend Never Quirky

I didn't come up through the ranks of the conservative movement... I came to these revelations about my own personal politics in a realm in which those books, those ideas, the canon of conservatism, is nonexistent.

Andrew Breitbart

Politics Ideas Personal My Own Own

My wife, my daughter, and my son have my first loyalty and always will.

Son Daughter Loyalty Wife Will

Gymnastics is just one part of my life, and I'm having as much fun with it as possible.

Life Fun My Life Possible Just One

I've always been into improvisation.

Always Improvisation Been

I still love to walk on stage and make people laugh, and I work very, very hard at it, and I take it seriously.

Work Love Walk People Laugh Hard

I would say confidence and security and comfortability in one's own skin. I think that's so attractive. Truly.

Confidence Think Security Skin Say

Israel is one of the easiest places to play ball. When I say easy I am referring to the easy lifestyle an athlete has while in Israel. It's very easy to get around the country, because it's so small.

Michael Kennedy

I Am Small Easy Country Play Say

Overall, I have formed three major organizations: the National Association of Business Women, the Young Women's Leaders Network, and the Joyce Banda Foundation. Under the foundation, we have a huge program that targets women to teach them about HIV and other diseases and to give them economic empowerment.

Women Business Foundation Young HIV

It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. What works in a classroom or a think tank does not work on Capitol Hill or in the White House. Obama sometimes seems to be running the Brookings Institution, not the country.

Work Great Politics Think House

My neighborhood was normal. I had a neighborhood where everyone knew everyone. Typical American upbringing. Sometimes we got into trouble, but everyone watched after each other, so if my parents didn't see me making trouble, another family would tell them.

Family Parents Me American Trouble

Once I got to college, it seemed that the Hamptons were a little bit too posh for me and didn't represent the kind of values I was embracing in my late teens. So, I didn't go out there, except to visit my parents, for a long time. And then, after 9/11, I discovered it was a nice, mellow place to hang out.

Colson Whitehead

Time Parents College Me Long Values

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