"I think it is good for youngsters to see me at 45 still jogging around the track. If me being here gives them a boost then thats great."

-- Linford Christie

#Thinking Quotes #Track Quotes #Giving Quotes

“If the only tool we use to analyse what's valuable is a price tag, then those things that don't have price tags begin to look like they have no value.”
“I've been riding the carousel in Central Park since I was five years old. If I'm very depressed or if something's bothering me today, my husband, Larry, and I go back to the park. We get on the carousel horse and we start riding, and I start singing at the top of my lungs. It is pure and absolute joy and happiness.”
“I canâ€™t help blushing and looking down at my feet. â€œIt was nothing.â€ â€œIt was literally everything to me.â€ I look up, putting on my best version of Eightâ€™s teasing smile. â€œIn that case, I think I deserve more than a gross hot dog.â€ Eight clasps his hands across his chest like Iâ€™ve wounded him. â€œYouâ€™re right! Iâ€™m a fool to think my life could be traded for a hot dog.â€ He grabs my hand and gets down on one knee, pressing his forehead to the back of my hand. â€œMy savior, what can I ever do to repay you?”
“Perfection is often the enemy of greatness”

Source : "CoverGirl Janelle Monáe Isn't Afraid to Fail". Interview with Hayley Mason, www.totalbeauty.com.
“Both my parents were actors. I was schooled to think that acting was an important social service, that it was something that human beings need.”

Source : "Love and All That Comes With It". Interview with Philip Galanes, www.nytimes.com. May 23, 2014.
“It was not noisy prejudice that caused the work of Mendel to lie dead for thirty years, but the sheer inability of contemporary opinion to distinguish between a new idea and nonsense.”
“Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.”
“Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.”

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