"It's totally different now, traveling to different meets and different cities and actually being able to enjoy the cities I'm in."

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Source : "U.S. Olympic trials: Q&A with legacy athlete Gail Devers". Interview with Paul Buker, www.oregonlive.com. June 23, 2012.

Gail Devers

#Cities Quotes #Different Quotes #Able Quotes

“We used to joke about canned men, putting people in a can and seeing how far you can send them and bring them back. That's not the purpose of this program... Space is a laboratory, and we go into it to work and learn the new.”
“If in a country, most of the wealth is concentrated in the hands of the few, then this country can hardly witness harmony and stability.”
“Too much shine, can dull the soul”

Source : FaceBook post by Big K.R.I.T. from Feb 17, 2014
“You're from where?" "Lay'en. It's near Salt Lake City." "Spell that for me." "Um, that would be S-A-L-T-" "No, the other one. The city you're from." "Oh. L-A-Y-T-O-N." "Ah-Lay-ton." That's what I said." "No you didn't. You just said, 'Lay'en.'" "So I did. But just go ahead and pronounce 'aluminum' for me, Mr. British Man. How are you going to defend that piece of insanity? Why don't you spell it and count syllables and see if your al-um-in-ium makes sense whatsoever?" He bowed his head. "TouchÃ©...”
“What do you look at while youâ€™re making up your mind? Ours is not a reflective culture, we do no raise our eyes up to the hills. Most of the time we decide the critical things while looking at the linoleum floor of an institutional corridor, or whispering hurriedly in a waiting room with a television blatting nonsense.”
“Time after time, on matters great and small, we are still standing on the sidelines, mutely accepting what is decided elsewhere instead of raising our voices and making our own choices. Scotland's much vaunted partnership of Jonah and the whale.”

Source : Quoted in Michael Russell (ed) Stop the World: The Autobiography of Winnie Ewing (2004).
“I gave him a bored look. I had been threatened many times before and had learned that the men who didnâ€™t make verbal threats were the most dangerous.”
“You can't make anything authentic by asking people what they want because they don't know what they want. That's what they're looking at you for.”

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