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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I think it's important to experience kindness so that you can experience it more in the future. I believe that patterns of emotional behavior are set down before adolescence. And I think that if you have not observed kindness, you will not recognize it. You have to experience kindness in order to be kind.
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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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If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
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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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I was surprised by how much I liked 'Hacksaw Ridge' and its depth.
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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 was a weird but definite kid, and there were essentially no gender roles for me to fit into.
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Many Jews are not Zionists and many non-Jews are. Zionism is a political movement, not a race. To say Zionism is the Jewish people is like saying the Democratic Party is the American people. Jewish people who oppose Zionism, however, have been given a very hard time.
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I don't desire happiness. I think it's a myth, and I don't think it's... and it makes you complacent. I feel very satisfyingly uncomfortable. I have the freedom to feel uncomfortable in the way I want to, is maybe a way to put it.
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'Push' had a story, 'The Paperboy' story you could just throw up in the air and shoot holes through the book because the story wasn't as strong. But I felt the characters were stronger in 'The Paperboy'; they were vivid.
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I didn't grow up beautiful.
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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.
Mark Spitz
