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 am sick and tired of hearing that it is our moral duty to serve the state, because conservatives believe that it is our moral duty to serve our fellow man regardless of race, sex, affiliation or creed, and when we serve, we believe that it is the state's duty to get out of the way.

  

  Allen West
  • Believe
  • Moral
  • Sex

• Getting to share a project with Anthony Hopkins is incredible. It's like watching Da Vinci paint or something - you're reminded why you do what you do.

  

  Evan Rachel Wood
  • Paint
  • Project
  • Watching

• I guess once you've seen Uma Thurman beaten up endlessly in the 'Kill Bill' movies, you think, 'If Uma can take it, what's the matter with me?'

  

  Dennis Christopher
  • Up

• Michele Bachmann is always a great person to go to for an opinion about anything. She has a very active and interesting mind.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Mind
  • Interesting
  • Opinion

• But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown than hard frost, and rarely looked intently into any of its closer regions without engendering more death than life. So does the eye of Heaven itself become an evil eye, when incapable or sordid hands are interposed between it and the thing it looks upon to bless.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Life
  • Heaven
  • Bless

• 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