Mark Spitz Quotes

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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.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Work
  • Society

• 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.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Job
  • High
  • Focus

• 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.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Life
  • Career
  • Action

• It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Thought
  • Personality
  • Voice

• Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Alien
  • Seen
  • Whatever

• 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.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • Time
  • Exit
  • Kicked

• The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Life
  • Law
  • City

• As a girl I wanted the Cyndi Lauper hairstyle, with the shaved side of the head, or the Sharon Stone perm from 'Total Recall.'

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Girl
  • Stone
  • Recall

• The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Up
  • Time
  • Fall

• I've always sort of believed that the future takes care of itself.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Future
  • Always
  • Care

• I don't separate things out between what's personal and what's my work. My passion is personal.

  

  Maiwenn
  • Work
  • Passion
  • Personal

• I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Writing
  • Pretty
  • Kind

• I think I could be a cook. Everybody always says I'm good, though I think it's quite gruelling as a profession.

  

  Edmund White
  • Good
  • Think
  • Always

• Life is tragic and absurd, and none of it has any purpose at all.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • Absurd

• 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.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • People
  • Art
  • Morning

• I have very high standards for every part of life - my work, my relationships, food, love. I can't just pretend.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Life
  • Work
  • Food

• 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.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Life
  • Home
  • America

• 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.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Great

• It is such a hard work to keep your heart hidden! And worse, bt the time you find it easy, it will be harder still to show it.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Work
  • Heart
  • Show

• Accidents, and particularly street and highway accidents, do not happen - they are caused.

  

  Ernest Greenwood
  • Street
  • Accidents
  • Caused

• That's a very good way to learn the craft of writing - from reading.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Good Way

• My mother was in the kind of late-'60s, early-'70s origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, 'You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do.'

  

  Felicity Jones
  • She
  • Mother
  • Kind

• It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Practice
  • Integrity
  • Profess

• 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