Katie Ledecky Quotes

It's kind of a loping stroke. It's not the prettiest stroke. But it's what's most efficient for me. And I think I kick a little more than most swimmers do.

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• Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • House
  • Man
  • Born

• I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Sorry
  • Muslim

• Ranger fans, they're expecting you to win, so you really want to show up every day.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Up
  • Day
  • Win

• My advice would be to follow your dream. Most of my life, I was in second place before I came in first place. I hope that inspired people to never give up.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Israel
  • Dealing
  • Treachery

• I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Understand
  • Word
  • Clever

• If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Humanity
  • Integrity
  • Through

• Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical. Reading it uncritically, without understanding the cultural and historical setting of the text, leaves us forced to accept scientific and sociological norms of the ancient Near East from 3,000 years ago.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Light
  • Reading
  • Learning

• Being a showrunner meant writing and producing a television show, period, but with 'Lost,' suddenly it became part of the job to promote and be the face of the brand. In a weird way, the story was as much the star as any of the actors, so people wanted to hear from us.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • People
  • Writing
  • Job

• If I get to be a legend, I've achieved my goal.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Goal
  • Legend
  • Achieved

• I'm just having a wonderful time. It's an interesting thing that I'm very comfortable with this material and I don't know why. Maybe it's because I did MacBeth.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Time
  • Why
  • Interesting

• Neither of us entered marriage thinking it wouldn't be a strain. Life has strains in it, and he's the person I want to strain with.

  

  Patricia Arquette
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Marriage

• Why does my brain insist on counting the steps every time I walk up a flight of stairs? I just can't help myself. There's something about my mind that always wants to keep counting.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mind

• I still care a lot about my personal style, and since moving to New York and having a little more control over my own money, I've been able to make my 12-year-old fashion nerd dream comes true.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Money
  • True
  • Dream

• I used to watch 'Coming to America' every day after school. I have full-on long-running inside jokes with friends and family about different scenes in that movie alone. Also, my brother and I loved 'The Golden Child,' so, yeah: I was a huge fan of Eddie Murphy growing up.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Up
  • Different
  • Long

• The smell of the ocean was stronger now, rank and enveloping, as if the bottom of the sea had turned over and littered the shore with its dead.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Sea
  • Ocean

• When did an old white guy yelling at me, telling me what to think become news? What gives him the right to tell me what to think? When was the last time he was in Iraq or Afghanistan or Sri Lanka... or anywhere that didn't have a beach?

  

  Lisa Ling
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Beach

• Mis verdades duran poco en mí: menos que las ajenas.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I have a great husband, great parents and in-laws, and I have help with a nanny. It's not easy, but there are others who do it every day and don't have a high-profile job as I do.

  

  Marlee Matlin
  • Great
  • Job
  • Help

• I'm a driven perfectionist, very self-critical.

  

  Marya Hornbacher

• One ought not to return injustice, nor do evil to anybody in the world, no matter what one may have suffered from them.

  

  Socrates
  • World
  • Evil
  • Return

• We all need support and friendship, regardless of circumstances. But where do people turn when friends and family are simply no longer there, or can't help us through a difficult time, or need all our care and attention and can't give us any in return? Thank goodness for befriending projects, who help fill the empty spaces where care, support and a listening ear need to be.

  

  Nicola Sturgeon
  • People
  • Giving
  • Support

• Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Religion
  • Trouble
  • Deprived

• It's kind of a loping stroke. It's not the prettiest stroke. But it's what's most efficient for me. And I think I kick a little more than most swimmers do.

  

  Katie Ledecky