"You can be strong and true to yourself without being rude or loud."

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Source : "Big interview: Paula Radcliffe". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2004.

Paula Radcliffe

#Being Strong Quotes #Rude Quotes #True To Yourself Quotes

“I still got my hair, I'm not fat.”
“I've been stuck on John Eldredge lately. He's all about being a warrior outside of the church. I hate to think about this kind of stuff - I just like to do it.”
“The arts, it has been said, cannot change the world, but they may change human beings who might change the world.”
“After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.”
“To reach people that no one is reaching you have to do things that no one is doing.”
“The spiritual kinship between Lincoln and Whitman was founded upon their Americanism, their essential Westernism. Whitman had grown up without much formal education; Lincoln had scarcely any education. One had become the notable poet of the day; one the orator of the Gettsyburg Address. It was inevitable that Whitman as a poet should turn with a feeling of kinship to Lincoln, and even without any association or contact feel that Lincoln was his.”
“Well, I really don't want to be a high-powered corporate lawyer. I'm really passionate about painting.”
“There's nothing a man can stand so much of as praise.”

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