Haile Gebrselassie Quotes

You must do as your people do. If my people are poor, I must be poor. People ask me, 'Why don't you find a personal coach or a private car?' I can't. Then I won't be part of my people.

Haile Gebrselassie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
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  • Birth: April 18, 1973

Topics

CarPeopleMeYouFindPersonal

On stage and in person, I think I am nice, thoughtful, and empathetic. But for some reason when I'm online, I become super aggressive and unhinged. I should probably get off of Twitter and see a therapist.

Joe Mande

I AmThinkThoughtfulPersonNice

Sometimes I feel like the best role models and the people you should look up to most are the people who make mistakes because they show you how to overcome them and walk through that mistake with integrity and grace.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

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I enjoy all forms of writing, but playwrighting is what made me what I am. Not only working with the ghosts of Chekhov and Ibsen and Shakespeare, but what it is to be a playwright, to be interacting with human beings in the live theater and affect people on such a direct, emotional level.

John Logan

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The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.

Stephen Jay Gould

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That little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.

Sojourner Truth

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If God created the family, He should be the ultimate definer of what it is, and that should be our point of reference.

Tony Evans

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I try to do something physical every day. I don't go heavy every day, though.

Russell Wilson

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There are a lot of actors that I really love to watch, actors who I have fun watching - I think Johnny Depp is phenomenal. But I wouldn't want that career as much as I'd like a career like Tom Hanks - he kind of represents the everyman.

Jared Padalecki

LoveFunHave FunThinkCareerKind

During an open water swim, it's easy to lose your direction. With all the splash, it can be quite hard to see the next buoy, so I look behind it for something bigger, like a tree or a building, and aim for that instead.

Jonathan Brownlee

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I love what I do. I work a lot, I work all the time, but I love it.

Brad Goreski

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I didn't go to prom - I was homeschooled.

Brie Larson

GoProm

My mother dressed me always very conservatively.

Selma Blair

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