"Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small."

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Source : "Zola Pieterse finds peace in native land" by Duncan Mackay, Andrew Meldrum, www.theguardian.com. August 9, 2005.

Zola Budd

#Motivational Quotes #Athlete Quotes #Years Quotes

“Aimee Parkison offers a distinct new voice to contemporary fiction. Her seductive stories explore childhood as a realm of sorrows, and reveal the afflictions of adults who emerge from this private geography.”
“Often the thought of pain is actually worse that the pain itself.”
“Anyone who attempts to build great things will face challenges.”
“I know that I set an example so I don't want niggas following my steps. I don't want anybody to go do the things that I did cuz for real at times I didn't even think I was gonna make it. I was hoping I didn't get killed. I don't want nobody to try to live my life.”

Source : Source: halftimeonline.net
“Hugh Everett's work has been described by many people in terms of many worlds, the idea being that every one of the various alternative histories, branching histories, is assigned some sort of reality.”
“Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.”
“When I was 16 years old I tried to kill myself because I felt different and that I didn't belong. Now I'm here, and I want this moment to be for that kid who feels weird or different. Stay weird, stay different.”

Source : "Oscars 2015 Speeches: The Winners of the Winners" by Allan MacDonell, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 22, 2015.
“My pleasure was to copy, not to create.”

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