Mark Spitz Quotes
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Mum and Dad were very much friends and up for life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up; they just taught me to be me.
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Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
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I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.
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I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.'
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I started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most comfortable doing.
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I have this group of friends that I'll send my scripts to before I send them to a large audience.
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My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.
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I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.
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Connecting dots is not that rewarding of an experience.
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In the 1930s and the 1940s, we set up the FHA. We set up the Home Owners' Loan Corporation. We set up specific bureaus to make our communities look the way they look.
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We have rules that no longer are relevant to the world we're living in. Our regulatory system can't keep up.
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I have my cousin's jacket from when he was at war in Iraq. He never came home. It's incredible to have something that is so personal but that I also feel relatively comfortable wearing.
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I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things. Lecturing to children is no answer to delinquency. Preaching won't keep youngsters out of trouble, but keeping their minds occupied will.
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'General Turquoise Blue?' asked Arthur. 'I didn't make Suzy a general, did I? I remember her talking about it, but I don't remember actually...' 'She probably just put on the uniform,' said Dr Scamandros. 'No one would question her.'
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The scar of fire, the dint of steel,Are easier than Love's wounds to heal.
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For fifty years the women of this nation have tried to dam up this deadly stream that poisons all their lives, but thus far they have lacked the insight or courage to follow it back to its source and there strike the blow at the fountain of all tyranny, religious superstition, priestly power and the canon law.
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I live half the year in Nigeria, the other half in the U.S. But home is Nigeria - it always will be. I consider myself a Nigerian who is comfortable in the world. I look at it through Nigerian eyes.
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It's the way I enjoy making art - I like sitting down and making five beats; I enjoy that process. I can go two weeks without making a song and just making beats and I'll be OK.
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I think every time in your life is valuable, and you need to exist in that moment. Because if you don't - you lose it.
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Rising sea levels, severe draughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.
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Everyone loves to be loved.
Mark Spitz
