Katrina Adams Quotes
Billie Jean King always was there for me as a role model. She always fought for equality, and that always stood out as I was coming up.
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Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
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Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
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We're at maybe 1% of what is possible. Despite the faster change, we're still moving slow relative to the opportunities we have. I think a lot of that is because of the negativity... Every story I read is Google vs someone else. That's boring. We should be focusing on building the things that don't exist.
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All my books are optimistic!
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I will tell you with 100 percent confidence, Jon Jones is not deep in my head. The fact he actually thinks that, it makes me smile every day.
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Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.
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I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
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I am a night owl. I always have been... and I'd like to think I always will be, although surely having children will put a stop to my nightly affairs with myself.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.
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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
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If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
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The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God.
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Men can be men and still get excited about other men kicking a ball around and they're never mocked, whereas it's easy for women to take mocking on board, to be belittled. Because we're used to it.
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Like I said, when I was a kid, they inspired me.
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My grandparents invented joylessness. They were not fun. I've already had more fun with my grandchildren than my grandparents ever had with me.
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There must be a little memory bank, a library or storage unit in my brain, that just tucks away memories of other people. I suck in as much of life as I can. I don't do it deliberately - I'm just curious. Dangerously so. I collect visual and aural patterns, physical human patterns, from experience.
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Billie Jean King always was there for me as a role model. She always fought for equality, and that always stood out as I was coming up.
