"The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it."

-- Haile Gebrselassie

#Long Quotes #Getting Older Quotes #Use Quotes

“I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I'm still my intractable old self, for better or worse.”

Source : Leroy Neiman (2013). “All Told: My Art and Life Among Athletes, Playboys, Bunnies, and Provocateurs”, p.121, Rowman & Littlefield
“She had been in situations like this, where people said, Convince me, and in none of those had they actually wanted to be convinced. She could lay down a perfect argument and they just invented new bullshit on the spot to justify why the answer was still no. When people said, Convince me, she knew it didnâ€™t mean they had an open mind. It meant they had power and wanted to enjoy it a minute.”
“Flown Raven is the country,"I muttered. "City slave," he said. "Farm boy," I shot back. "I've never even seen a farm." "Don't trifle me with details.”

Source : Moira J. Moore (2006). “The Hero Strikes Back”, p.28, Penguin
“Maybe it's a form of overcompensation, but whenever I've toured, I've always needed a huge performance component.”
“Prayer is sitting in the silence until it silences us, choosing gratitude until we are grateful, and praising God until we ourselves are an act of praise.”
“When some people get parts, they feel they can now relax, but for me it was always the opposite. Sometimes before I do a movie or before I act out a scene, I may not sleep well the night before. If I don't know what the scene is about, I might get all worked up.”
“Books are keys that open many doors -- James Rollins”
“People ask me a lot about the values I got from playing for the Cubs for so many years. The value I got out of it was patience. A lot of people these days are not very patient.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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