I saw what politics did to the Olympic Games in 1980 and 1984, and I would defend the right of a sportsman to go and play and perform where they want.
I work hard on New Year's eve as I perform at shows. And then round it off by spending a lazy day on January 1st.
The world is littered with the tales of small businesses in the dire straits of hiring that spent time and money they couldn't afford to hire people who couldn't perform.
My having won a gold medal in Beijing is not going to be an extra advantage. It does not have any bearing on how I perform in London in a year's time.
I regarded our progress merely as an invitation to do more - as an indication that we had reached a place where we might begin to perform a real service.
Sometimes I would bring some of my music to the school and perform on the playground, and they'd think, "There goes Patrick, trying to entertain everyone as usual."
Keynes did not teach us how to perform the miracle of turning a stone into bread, but the not at all miraculous procedure of eating the seed corn.
I think that there is a sort of spiritual power that is translating into our bodies as we perform. Performers give, and giving is so important. It can heal. That is my experience, anyway.
The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister interest.
I was asked to perform at the Olympics Opening Ceremony. But I was up a tree in Borneo filming a documentary about Alfred Russel Wallace! So it couldn't be done.
I have the gift of the gab, can talk and perform, but so can others. I can only attribute it to the fact that somebody up there likes me: it's remote-controlled by God.
Women are often paid far less than men, while they also perform most of the world's unpaid care work.
As a medical student in the 1970s, I was taught that the foundations of diagnosis and treatment were to take a detailed history and to perform a comprehensive clinical examination.
It's like a cosmic joke that people dream to perform in front of a huge crowd. But it is a welcomed challenge. I hope I always have that positive apprehension.
The secret of karma yoga which is to perform actions without any fruitive desires is taught by Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad-Gita.
For ritual allows those who cannot will themselves out of the secular to perform the spiritual, as dancing allows the tongue-tied man a ceremony of love.
Giving auditions is a great exercise. They will provide you with a script, and you prepare in 10 minutes. And you perform in front of 100 other people.
Like someone once said, "If you're going to play the part, you better wear the eye patch." You need to perform the function, you know.
I've been through enough competition in amateur wrestling my whole life to know that sometimes you have off nights and you don't perform and chalk it up to that and move on.
Live performances make music important. Recording is cool and fun, and it's nice to document the thing you made, but the goal in my mind is to perform.
I love it, getting the chance to write and perform your own stuff, with a huge team of people creating that world for you, is truly magical.
If what you're talking about is seeing someone perform, then I'll have to say that in the rhythm-and-blues side of things, seein' Otis Redding live was it, you know?
To perform on stage, you have to run through your paces till you are perfect. Despite the script and director, the actor makes or breaks the play.
I have been trying to perform well and give my best, but unless I have a good story line in my hand or a supportive team, I am nothing.
I am proud of whatever my parents have achieved. In fact, it drives me to excel in life, to perform even better and explore myself.
Like every art form, there are jealousies and angers and competitiveness in magic. But there's camaraderie among magicians, whether you perform it for a living or you're an enthusiast.
I can't escape crooning the 'Mitwa... Kahe Dhadkan Tujhse Kya' number wherever I perform. Basically, I am a classically rooted musician.
The teacher will perform miracles. Not just to delight and amuse people, but showing them that miraculous occurrences indicate that there is something more.
It's tough to stay focused and be able to separate life from our job. We are paid to perform, and we are performers. You gotta have good brothers to lean on.
The buying of time or space is not the taking out of a hunting license on someone else's private preserve but is the renting of a stage on which we may perform.
Being a growing entertainer, period, you're going to always have struggles. I'm still trying to learn how to even perform right onstage.
I'm really impressed every time Kanye comes to perform at 'SNL' because he finds a new way to make that space work for him.
I love music. I seriously cannot wait until the day comes that I get to perform around the world for people, I've wanted to do that my whole life.
Companies using public lands should be required to perform thorough testing on all wells in order to fully ensure water safety.
My dad and I would perform around the Bay Area where I'm from in California together, and I also did talent shows growing up, I loved it.
The real trick for me as a director is to make sure that people don't start pushing because the harder you push as a perform the less funny it becomes.
Forget that you are anybody and just perform the activities around you. Look at them. Watch what you are doing, my God! Life is right in front of you, and it's great.
I'm not running after glamorous roles, honestly. I'm a performer and want to perform instead of standing like a mannequin wearing a lot of makeup.
I think women are by nature competitive - secretly, privately within their own selves, on lots of different levels, on the way they look, perform.
Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people's hands. There are a lot of pleasures that theatre gives me. You get to perform uninterrupted.
This is a game that at the end of the day, it's sports entertainment. We have to perform to keep fans in the seats, and what they pay helps put food on our tables.
Someone at an airport in Germany asked me to sing Wherever I Lay My Hat. It's strange, they wouldn't ask people in other professions to perform on the spot.
Be it while recording a song or singing to a live audience, I still get nervous. I feel that is very important. This is what makes me perform well.
There's a reason I live in the Maine woods, where nobody knows what I do for a living. I think you can be better if someone who's coming to see you perform has no idea who you really are.
God’s grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior.
We all perform. It's what we do for each other all the time, deliberately or unintionally. It's a way of telling about ourselves in the hope of being recognized as what we'd like to be.--PERFORMANCE
Let me encourage you to continue to wait with faith. God may not perform a miracle, but he is trustworthy to touch you and make you whole where there used to be a hole
A mall was something that I just used to hang out in as a kid. And then you go there, and there's 4,000 people waiting for you to perform. It's a big difference.
I always wanted to perform. I remember being 5 years old and telling my parents to sit down as I was going to put on a play for them.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
To represent a country, qualify for the World Cup, and get a team to perform at the right moment in time would be great honour for me.
I was first introduced to Kiesza when I saw her perform 'Hideaway' on Jimmy Kimmel's show. It was the most incredible thing I've ever seen.
I feel like with every performance that I see, I get better because I've always thought - while I'm watching people perform - of what I would do.
My father passed away before he saw me perform. I can't help but wonder what he would think of all this. I go to a job in full makeup.
There may be some people in the country who forget to perform their duty. You should set an example by doing your job with honesty and faithfulness.
I know I'm not a good actor; I just don't have that natural ability to perform when someone narrates a scene. What I lack in talent I make up with my brain.
Every living creature that comes into the world has something allotted him to perform; therefore, he should not stand an idle spectator of what others are doing.
Unless companies change these rules, any superficial re-organizations they perform will be no more effective than dusting the furniture in Pompeii.
Short-sellers perform a useful function in the market as conduits of negative information, and shorts often complain that they are discriminated against by regulators.
I imagine there's an undercurrent of the impact of early religious teachings and my break from what I was taught and expected to perform if I wanted to be considered normal in my family of origin.
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