Katie Ledecky Quotes

My faith has always been important to me. It defines who I am.

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• The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Music
  • Ideas
  • Painting

• We talk about these legendary fighters, talk about how they had hundred-something fights, hundred-something victories... but when you look at the history books, I still beat more world champions than any fighter in history.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • World
  • History
  • Look

• I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Know
  • Written
  • Arts

• I don't have a radio or TV going all the time. It's very important to have awareness, to know when you tense up and then to stop that.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Up
  • Time
  • Important

• If you look back on the breakups that you've had, whether it's a long relationship or a one-night stand, it's always awkward.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Long
  • Night
  • Relationship

• I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Never
  • Film
  • Budget

• I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Watching
  • Judgmental

• He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Tree
  • Fruit
  • Tall

• The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Work
  • Problem
  • Successful

• For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Up
  • Live
  • Love

• I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Movie
  • Building
  • Looking

• Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for a privileged few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental human right.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
  • Good
  • Children

• I've always had an interest in doing something that was outside my comfort zone; I had this thing about standing on the edge of the cliff and deciding to jump.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Doing
  • Jump
  • Comfort

• The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Man
  • Morning

• So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Women
  • Love
  • Fall

• I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Think
  • Church
  • Christian

• To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Poet
  • Philosopher
  • Decide

• I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Time
  • Think
  • Death

• I have a simple rule: when I'm on TV, I'm not talking to just my anchor or my colleague on my right. I'm talking to America. I look into the lens, and in my head, I'm talking to somebody in Nebraska. Why Nebraska? Why the Cornhusker State? I have no idea. But it feels like it's a good place to talk to people.

  

  Donna Brazile
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• I have sometimes thought the power of computers had exceeded our ability to use them, but Mr. Jobs and his team kept giving us devices that made indispensable things easier in ways you never thought of.

  

  Andrew Rosenthal
  • Power
  • Giving
  • Team

• The bottom line is, I want us to rebound, defend, share the ball, play hard. That's all. Now if you can't do that, if that's not important enough to you, it's not on me.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Important
  • Play
  • Enough

• I think it's just important to be always bouncing between TV and theater, and hopefully I'll get to do movies at some point.

  

  Katie Lowes
  • Important

• I think it's important to be happy before you can make anybody else happy.

  

  Julianne Hough
  • Important
  • Happy
  • Make

• My faith has always been important to me. It defines who I am.

  

  Katie Ledecky
  • Important
  • Faith