"Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words."

-- Haile Gebrselassie

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“You have to accept gifts occasionally, because there are some things you canâ€™t give yourself”
“Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.”
“The Freedom which Christianity gives, is a Freedom from the Bondage of Sin and Satan, and from the Domination of Men's Lusts and Passions and inordinate Desires; but as to their outward Condition, whatever that was before, whether bond or free, their being baptised, and becoming Christians, makes no manner of Change in it.”
“In college I took a class from a professor who changed my whole life. I can't really remember what his name was, or what the class was, or even which college it was, but I found that if you sit behind a really tall guy and kind of slouch down in your chair you can drink Scotch right from the bottle and not get caught.”
“I thought cars were essential ingredients of life itself.”

Source : "An Actor Takes His Place on a Stage of a Different Sort" by Paul Stenquist, www.nytimes.com. March 5, 2010.
“I love the way a list makes a big hodgepodge of things simmer down and behave.”

Source : Blue Balliett (2012). “The Danger Box”, p.29, Scholastic Inc.
“Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.”
“This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export trade, and as much as possible convert all of their manufacturing facilities to the immediate needs of the war, including civilian, as well as military requirements.”

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