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“My definition of utter waste is a coachload of lawyers going over a cliff, with three empty seats.”
Source : Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).
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“When I'm sore, ice is my best friend. It really works. I take omega-3s every day, which helps with inflammation. And I try to eat things that won't inflame my joints, like fresh fruits and veggies, lean protein, and seafood.”
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“It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else.”
Source : "Ballerina of the Century". The Academy of Achievement Interview in New York City, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990. 
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“I read Macbeth as a secondary student in Nigeria and it was like an African play to me. It had all the right elements - witches, kings and assassinations.”
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“I am never in a hurry to reach details. First and above all I am interested in the large masses and the general character of a picture; when these are well established, then I try for subtleties of form and color. I rework the painting constantly and freely, and without any systematic method.”
Source : From Corot's 'Notebooks', 1850. "Artists on Art, from the 14 to 20 Centuries". Book by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves, pp. 240-241, 1972.
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“No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart.”
Source : Alfred de Vigny (1905). “Cinq Mars ...”
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“The nature will continue, it's our existence that is finite and you are given this gift of life and you make your way with it, but fate and natural disasters will continue on.”
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“Men expect too much, do too little.”
Source : Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.86, Macmillan
