Track Quotes - Page 15

• I had a very good package for Phoenix, but at other tracks we do not have the power. The Brazilian Grand Prix was maybe closer to the reality.

  Jean Alesi

  Reality, Phoenix, Very Good

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• Years ago I sang on a track using that voice and someone asked, 'Who is that terribly depressed man?' But Patrick loved it. He said, 'You sound like a young boy, like a child, like an old woman, like an old man,' and really, we all have all of those things inside of us. I don't do any vocal gymnastics to make the voice better as I age. If it comes out rougher, then it's true to what's happening. Singing is who I am. I didn't train for it, any more than I trained for anything else I did. I probably should take better care of myself physically, but it goes against the grain.

  Lisa Gerrard

  Children, Gymnastics, Men

  "The Spirit Of Dead Can Dance". Interview with J. Poet, www.sfgate.com. September 18, 2005.

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• The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.

  George Eliot

  Wisdom, Lying, Smell

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.31

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• Sales managers should track the number of first meetings with "right fit" prospects a sales person is engaged in on a monthly basis...This metric alone will serve as a powerful, early-warning system to sales performance.

  Adrian Davis

  Powerful, Sales Person, Numbers

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• The optimist sees a light at the end of the tunnel, the realist sees a train entering the tunnel, the pessimist sees a train speeding at him, hell for leather, and the machinist sees three idiots sitting on the rail track. "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist fears this is true."

  James Branch Cabell

  Tunnels, Light, Three

  The Silver Stallion bk. 4, ch. 26 (1926) See Leibniz 3; Voltaire 7; Voltaire 8

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• We started Yahoo in about April 1994. It started out as a way for us to keep track of things that we were interested in.

  David Filo

  Growth, Way, April

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• We must play music quietly, talk quietly, weep in private, because I am the all-powerful Zahir, who lays down the rules and determines the distance between railway tracks, the meaning of success, the best way to love, the importance of rewards.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Powerful, Distance

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• Know how to get close to it: mountains are often seen from far off - beautiful, interesting, full of challenges. But what happens when we try to draw closer? Roads run all around them, flowers grow between you and your objective, what seemed so clear on the map is tough in real life. So try all the paths and all the tracks until eventually one day you're standing in front of the top that you yearn to reach.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Beautiful, Running

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• But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don't realize that's a lie.

  Roberto Bolano

  Running, Art, Lying

  "Last Evenings on Earth". Book by Roberto Bolaño, 2006.

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• I played the track 'Exciter' backwards and suggested to the judge that what he'd heard was, 'I asked her for a peppermint. I asked her to get me one'. When the judge heard it, his eyes lit up. It was as if he realized how ridiculous the whole thing was.

  Rob Halford

  Eye, Judging, Peppermint

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• I may not answer the questions that either the moderator or you want to hear, but I'm going to talk straight to the American people and let them know my track record also.

  Sarah Palin

  People, Answers, May

  Democratic Sen. Joe Biden and Republican Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin debate in St. Louis, Missouri, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2008.

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• I've lost track of the number of people who want to be writers but never actually write anything. Talking about writing, dreaming about writing, can be very fun, but it won't get a book written. You've got to write

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Dream, Fun, Book

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• I don't ... like rhythm, assonance, all that stuff. You just go on your nerve. If someone's chasing you down the street with a knife you just run, you don't turn around and shout, 'Give it up! I was a track star for Mineola Prep.'

  Frank O'Hara

  Running, Stars, Knives

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• Take the regular wagon track and never leave it.

  James Clyman

  Wagons

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• Im also working on a track for Howard Hewett, and a theme for a new NPR show.

  George Duke

  Npr, Theme, Shows

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• I think it is good for youngsters to see me at 45 still jogging around the track. If me being here gives them a boost then thats great.

  Linford Christie

  Thinking, Giving, Jogging

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• Many track and field people know that if I stay relaxed and run my race like I'm supposed to, I will be the winner at the Olympic Games.

  Asafa Powell

  Running, Race, Games

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• We were never a band that did 96 takes of the same thing. I had heard of groups that were into that kind of excess around that time. They'd work on the same track for three or four days and then work on it some more, but that's clearly not the way to record an album. If the track isn't happening and it creates some sort of psychological barrier, even after an hour or two, then you should stop and do something else. Go out: go to the pub, or a restaurant or something. Or play another song.

  Jimmy Page

  Song, Play, Two

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• Several times in my life I've gone through long periods without sex or any other kind of physical contact. The hunger it produces is deep and low; it's possible to lose track of it, to forget or fail to perceive how it's emptied everything out of you and made the world papery and thin. Touch starved, you brush against existence like a stick against dry leaves. You become insubstantial yourself, a hungry ghost.

  Hari Kunzru

  Sex, Long, Gone

  "My Revolutions". Book by Hari Kunzru, 2007.

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• Never mind the track. The track is for punks. We are Road People. We are Cafe Racers.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  People, Mind, Cafes

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• Empathic, emotionally intelligent work environments have a good track record of increasing creativity, improving problem solving and raising productivity.

  Daniel Goleman

  Creativity, Intelligent, Empathy

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• In the last four years under the Patriot Act, we have seen a great increase in the ability of law enforcement officials to investigate and track terrorists.

  Mike Pence

  Years, Law, Enforcement

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The only good grades I ever got in school before I was kicked out were for creative writing. I thought that fiction might be in my future but then my career took a different path once the Beatles showed me what a blast being in a band could be. Writing my memoir Late, Late at Night reminded me how much I love the craft. So I decided to give fiction a shot again.Magnificent Vibration is the result. I’m still not quite sure where it came from, but once I got going, it practically wrote itself. I’ve heard writers I admire speak of that phenomenon, so maybe I’m on the right track.

  Rick Springfield

  Writing, School, Night

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• I knew when the ball was going out (over the Green Monster). It was something I worked into the decoy, but it used to tick the pitchers off. Bill Monbouquette used to say, 'Can't you at least make it look like you can catch it?' Meanwhile, the ball would be on its way over the fence to a spot three-quarters of the way out to the railroad tracks.

  Carl Yastrzemski

  Monsters, Would Be, Railroads

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• My first big break came with Lauryn Hill on a track called Everything is Everything, I played piano on that track way back in 1998.

  John Legend

  Piano, Legends, Way

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