Mark Spitz Quotes
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Yes, there is plenty of hard work for them in addition to that which they do when they appear, smiling and happy, when the curtain goes up. Giving a performance is the least of their worries.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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Liars do look you in the eye. They do not always stutter, stammer, blush or fidget.
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I don't do anything political on Sundays.
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If you're an independent voter, I'm willing to bet that you were not too happy at the prospect of hitting the polls on November 8, 2016. But let me guess – you did it anyway because after all, it's your civic duty, right?
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That's pretty much who I am. I like to get riled up. I feel like it brings the best out of me and the other guys.
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Starting a new business will take its toll on your time and energy, and this can place strain on family and social relationships, depending on their expectations and how open you are in your communication with them.
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If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.
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Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.
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I loved 'Ghana Must Go' by Taiye Selasi. It's about a first-generation African family living in America that has to return home to Nigeria when their estranged father passes away.
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He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious.
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Fishes do not roar; they cannot express any sound of suffering; and therefore the angler chooses to think they do not suffer, more than it is convenient for him to fancy. Now it is a poor sport that depends for its existence on the want of a voice in the sufferer, and of imagination in the sportsman.
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Could women's liberation ever be a revolutionary movement, not rhetorically but on the ground?
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Take inventory of everyone with whom you have contact.
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Ma pensée, c'est moi: voilà pourquoi je ne peux pas m'arrêter. J'existe parce que je pense … et je ne peux pas m'empêcher de penser.
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I like befriending my collaborators because I'd rather make music with people I like than people I pretend to like.
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The gratification you feel from making tangible progress while running is just about unparalleled, so I understand why people love it. But it's also hard, grueling work. Those feel-good benefits have to be earned four to five times a week.
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It's really fun to go back and forth from acting projects to directing projects. You don't have as much responsibility when you're acting, but you have more fun. But then you miss having that responsibility, and so you go back and torture yourself and make a movie.
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There is no doubt that terrorists acting under the banner of Islam have declared war on us.
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Until late in life, I was never quite good enough for my father, and I suppose that is part of what drives me even now, well after his death in 1992.
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I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.
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My sons are into German music, but they are into all kinds of music.
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I really liked the sound of some projects that Jon Brion had worked on. I was always considered this crazy hothead kid, but I would always just go and just really break bread with someone who I respected. I will completely bow to anybody I respect.
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My biggest loss was the Olympics. I just can't forget losing. I never will.
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