#pet

I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment. ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#competing #equipment #feel #hard #hard work

I want to wake up every day and feel that I'm training harder than my competitors, that I'm dieting harder, that I'm recovering better. That's what gives me confidence when I'm lining up on the blocks. I've never gone out to prove people wrong. I just want to be the best that I can possibly be. ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#better #blocks #competitors #confidence #day

It's a two-dimensional gig being a singer, and you can get lost in your own tedium and repetition. ↗

— Robert Plant

#get #gig #lost #own #repetition

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#cat #could #i #i wish #mysterious

What makes the Universal Declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus and secondly the breadth of its claims, a commitment to a new social contract, binding on all the Governments of the world. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#breadth #claims #commitment #contract #declaration

When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be. ↗

— Natalie Portman

#desirable #guy #i #like #me

What was the competition? Well, I remember this Puerto Rican who came out in a short skirt and a gun. ↗

— Sarah Vaughan

#competition #gun #i #i remember #out

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort. ↗

— Colin Powell

#average #average people #competition #effort #healthiest

Look at the world. There is no pure competitor to the United States of America. ↗

— Colin Powell

#competitor #look #pure #states #united

The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through the ages is comedy. ↗

— Dawn Powell

#always #burlesque #comedy #dupe #fox