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 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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It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable. In the same way the pleasures of this world are very attractive in the beginning, but their consequences are terrible to contemplate and hard to endure.
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Women’s vulnerability confessing their desire to see men as a success object is matched by men’s confession of compulsiveness of sexual desire for women.
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At night, the moon, a pregnant woman, walks cautiously over the slippery heavens.
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Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
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I love history because when you strip away the social and political aspects, it's really just a bunch of fun stories.
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Always keep absorbing art and looking at paintings and reading books and watching movies in other languages, just getting to know the world at hand and the world of the past. It's important to keep absorbing the world and keep engaging with it, and often that means not thinking about movies and thinking about other things.
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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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