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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In a fight between a strong technique and a strong body, technique will prevail. In a fight between a strong mind and a strong technique, mind will prevail, because it will find the weak point.
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I have found a shaft, going 29 meters [95 feet, approximately] vertically down into the ground, exactly halfway between the Chefren Pyramid and the Sphinx. At the bottom, which was filled with water, we have found a burial chamber with four pillars. In the middle is a large granite sarcophagus which I expect to be the grave of Osiris, the god.
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The voice is certainly important and you can hear if it's beautiful or not, it's the gods who decide; it's more a question of what you do with the voice, which is the mysterious element. It's the personality behind the voice which makes the artist. The voice is a gift of God, but if you're not able to use this gift, what's left? Nothing but a beautiful voice, without nuance or color.
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Youth calls for Pleasure, Pleasure calls for Love.
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Rip Rig + Panic that I joined, they were really influenced by jazz and blues and punk. So I think what happened from punk, which was kind of DIY, was that it created a kind of creative place that was kind of without limits, in a way.
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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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