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“I think the British people have a strong sense of what is fair.”
Source : "George Osborne's speech to the Conservative party conference in full". www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2010.
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“No wonder circus animals do what they do: They tortured them. And you know the only ones they can't control? It's the chimpanzees. You can't control them. That's why you never see a gorilla in a movie, because the gorilla may decide there'll be no filming.”
Source : Source: www.avclub.com
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“A young man is afraid of his demon and puts his hand over the demon's mouth sometimes and speaks for him. And the things the young man says are very rarely poetry.”
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“Outwardly I am 83, but inwardly I am every age, with the emotions and experience of each period.”
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“Speedwork is terribly overrated! I remember talking to runners after distance races and someone is sure to say they were able to run fast off base work with no speed work at all. The truth is speedwork doesn't work. Lots of miles, and then fast miles gets you there much quicker than speed work.”
Source : Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.
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“Obviously there are not too many people who get a chance to play in the Olympics in their hometown. That would be something special, but going into the summer you have to be realistic with yourself, and health-wise and motivation-wise you have to be willing to do what it takes.”
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“There's always some kind of hidden logic.”
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“The backstreet cafe in Casablanca was for me a place of mystery, a place with a soul, a place with danger. There was a sense that the safety nets had been cut away, that each citizen walked upon the high wire of this, the real world. I longed not merely to travel through it, but to live in such a city.”