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

  

  Malcolm X
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  • Muslim

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

  

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

  

  Bashar al-Assad
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• The brunette phase just came about because I was fed up with this 'Blonde Angel Image'. The rebel in me demanded a new color.

  

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

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
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• If I get to be a legend, I've achieved my goal.

  

  Usain Bolt
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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.

  

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• I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you the strength to do the right thing and behave the right way and overcome the mind.

  

  Alexis Arguello
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• I want young girls to know that their passions are important and that they should pursue them, regardless of whether or not they think that they'll be successful in terms of the mainstream.

  

  Marley Dias
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• When I concentrate on a specific site or place for which I am going to design a building, I try to plumb its depths, its form, its history and its sensuous qualities.

  

  Peter Zumthor
  • History
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• The laws of thermodynamics may be regarded as particular cases of more general laws, applicable to all such states of matter as constitute Energy , or the capacity to perform work, which more general laws form the basis of the science of energetics, a science comprehending, as special branches, the theories of motion, heat, light , electricity , and all other physical phenomena.

  

  William John Macquorn Rankine
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• I had a very loyal cult-like following, I feel. And I don't mean to complain about that.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Mean
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• 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