"I know, I'm like a kid. Maybe I was a bit too spoilt growing up. Everything just came like I wanted it to."

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Source : "Asafa Powell says it is time to step out of Usain Bolt's shadow". Interview With Anna Kessel, www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2011.

Asafa Powell

#Growing Up Quotes #Kids Quotes #Wanted Quotes

“Your love for what you do and willingness to push yourself where others aren't prepared to go is what will make you great.”
“The IRA have nowhere to go. I've stripped away all their excuses, one by one.”
“Be content to love, to dazzle in the light, If only for momentsâ€¦ And then be gone, With gladness in your heart, Before the creeping shadows Claim too much your sadness at leaving.”
“Heaven is not gone, but we are blind with tears, Groping our way along the downward slope of Years!”

Source : Richard Henry STODDARD (1852). “Poems”, p.55
“There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.”

Source : Louis Sachar (2007). “There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom: Rejacketed”, p.198, A&C Black
“I believe people are inherently magical and good.”
“Look at me, with my pretty bracelet and tiara... I'm a f****n' princess!”
“Historians will look back on this era and how the Internet changed what we value, what we consider art, the way we think, the way we define what it means to be human. In Sincerity and Authenticity, Lionel Trilling describes the changes that occurred between about 1850 and 1920, due to the Industrial Revolution and the resulting migration of people from small communities to relative anonymity in cities. Because of that paradigm shift, ideas about what it means to be an individual underwent a transformation that leeched into all areas. Art, psychology, history, marriage, gender.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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