Mark Spitz Quotes
All things being equal, if we could simulate the same scenario, he has a lot more difficult task. He's elected to swim six individual events, as opposed to what I elected to do, which was four.Mark Spitz
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We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.
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When Bob Wilson left the BBC for ITV, I got the 'Football Focus' job, and it went from there. It came completely out of the blue, but the fact I had a high profile certainly helped.
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I don't want to be an action star; action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.
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It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
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Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.
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I will come to know when my time's up, and when it is, I will exit gracefully. I will not hang around till I am kicked out.
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The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.
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As a girl I wanted the Cyndi Lauper hairstyle, with the shaved side of the head, or the Sharon Stone perm from 'Total Recall.'
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The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.
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I've always sort of believed that the future takes care of itself.
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I don't separate things out between what's personal and what's my work. My passion is personal.
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I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.
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I think I could be a cook. Everybody always says I'm good, though I think it's quite gruelling as a profession.
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Life is tragic and absurd, and none of it has any purpose at all.
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I write early in the morning at the computer, and people think I'm crazy, but I still use my Mac-Classic even though we have a state-of-the-art PC. There are just less distractions with the simpler machine.
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I have very high standards for every part of life - my work, my relationships, food, love. I can't just pretend.
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I used to be sick of the backroads of Minnesota. I had to drive 30 miles to get home every day, take the schoolbus for two hours. But to drive through America and see the backroads, from Nashville to Memphis, Lovick to New Mexico, was incredible. It was probably the greatest trip of my life.
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When I found myself riding in a lift with the great showman, I was too much too frightened even to look at him, much less get off at the same floor.
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I heard endless conversations between my parents when I was going to sleep about how we would survive, how we would continue. All of them were about trying to make me better.
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Through affliction hath His light shone and His praise been bright unceasingly: this hath been His method through past ages and bygone times.
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There always will be limits to growth.
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Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
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You have read and heard that communist theory-the science of communism created in the main by Marx, this doctrine of Marxism-has ceased to be the work of a single socialist of the nineteenth century, even though he was a genius, and that it has become the doctrine of millions and tens of millions of proletarians all over the world, who are applying it in their struggle against capitalism.
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All things being equal, if we could simulate the same scenario, he has a lot more difficult task. He's elected to swim six individual events, as opposed to what I elected to do, which was four.
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