"I try to paint from life, but I had such a miserable experience with Bonaparte, who wouldn't sit still and kept mumbling about catching a cold and something incoherent about Wellington , so I finally decided to work from photos."

-- Roman Genn

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“Sport is one of the few spaces where people can learn about different cultures in a spirit of trust and friendship.”

Source : "The Olympics and the Spirit of Sport" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 27, 2012.
“When it comes to boxing I find a way to clear my mind. When it comes to boxing you have to fight. Clear your mind and fight. You can't really think of outside things when you're in the ring.”

Source : Source: www.boxinginsider.com
“A disruption of the circadian cycleâ€”the metabolic and glandular rhythms that are central to our workaday lifeâ€”seems to be involved in many, if not most, cases of depression; this is why brutal insomnia so often occurs and is most likely why each dayâ€™s pattern of distress exhibits fairly predictable alternating periods of intensity and relief.”
“Sometimes it seems as though not a moment has moved, but then you look up and you're already old or you already have a household of kids or you look down and see your feet are miles and miles away from the rest of youâ€”and you realize you've grown up.”
“At the still point, there the dance is.”
“If white privilege is a thing, why are people working so hard to be black? All of the award shows and cultural events favor black culture.”
“I tend to think of all the songs the same - I give them all kind of equal rights.”
“When skateboarding hit, I wanted to be best skateboarder in the world, and I fought for it, there was nothing that was going to get in my way.”

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