"I was running track early in my years and I was breaking track records in sprint running. I was training and I wanted to be in the Olympics. I thought I was going to be able to win a gold medal, and my mind was pretty much set on 'this is what I want to do'."

-- Sheila E.

#Running Quotes #Winning Quotes #Years Quotes

“I do find, coming form the stage and all that, I've always been conscious of my posture and my body, but also the style aspect, I do find myself throwing on a blazer and a nice pair of loafers more often. Daddy always likes a new pair of Guccis.”
“In the doctrine of the world and humankind as 'will to power and nothing else', Heidegger identified not an antidote to nihilism, but the completion of it. For what can be more destructive of truth and value than the doctrine that these are simply the impositions on the world of human exercises of power?”
“I believe that we as the leader of the Free World must provide important leadership on the ethical parameters, the ethical constraints that this research requires.”
“Genius is nothing more or less than childhood recovered by will, a childhood how equipped for self-expression with an adult's capacities.”
“Facts are facts! And if they're impossible, they're still facts!”

Source : "The Time Tunnel". Book by Murray Leinster, Chapter 9, 1964.
“Unless we have something worth dying for, Atretes, we've nothing worth living for.”
“So Europe's a big driver. And at one point, if the euro hadn't devalued, they would have been making as much money as the US with half the stores. Returns were higher.”
“The job of the writer is to kiss no ass, no matter how big and holy and white and tempting and powerful.”

Source : Ken Kesey (2006). “Sometimes a Great Notion”, p.11, Penguin

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