Mark Spitz Quotes
There are times I might coach one or two workouts a year when the regular coach gets caught in traffic.Mark Spitz
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So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't mean they're good.
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.
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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
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I'm not going to freeze under the pressure. I'm hoping I can stand up to it.
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I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?
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I got interested in decathlon because a coach that I had was a big fan of Bruce Jenner, and he just saw the ability in me - but when it came down to it, I knew my best chance at a college scholarship would be in track and field.
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I wish my real life could be as simple and scripted as it is on television.
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The other aspect is that you become much more aware of the structural problems that pertain to that continent. You feel the need to act to try and solve them.
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Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.
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The thing about fantasy - there are certain things you just don't do in fantasy.
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No actor wants to play to an empty house.
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Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
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I worked at NBC and MTV for two years, and it was very interesting to see the comparisons of audiences and the way that I would have to present a story to the two different places.
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I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.
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If you put this in the context of Detroit in '64 or '65, the economy was booming. Everybody had jobs and there was a whole nightclub culture where bands could work.
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I get on fine with my mum and dad, but if they want to see the grandchildren, they come to me.
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I don't publish anything I haven't worked over 100 times.
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A rock star is expected to act like a mess, sound like a mess and look like a mess. People don't expect you to show up on time and be a professional. But when you're a pop star, you have to do all that, look perfect and be a role model.
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Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised.
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I would say that in some ways George Mitchell is kind of an old fashioned guy, in terms of these basic values, but he was a very modern person, encouraging, he was not only accepting but he was actually encouraging.
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There are times I might coach one or two workouts a year when the regular coach gets caught in traffic.
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