Emil Zatopek Quotes
You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it.
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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I converse with my dog through ESP.
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I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.
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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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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
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My mom is incredibly stylish, and she gets it from my grandmother. I feel like I can't live up to how chic they are as women. They are great role models for aging gracefully, and that's a thing that is very key that I try to always emulate.
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I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body... as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property.
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I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
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I've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky.
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To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.
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When you are in your 20s and you're not married with kids, you're having fun. But when you're in your 30s and you're not married and don't have kids, you begin to develop a Peter Pan complex. As you grow older, you have more responsibilities and you have to step up to them.
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I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.
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The poorest of families, the poorest of children, are subsidizing the growth of the largest agribusinesses in the world. I think itÂ’s time we recognized that in free trade the poor farmer, the small farmer, is ending up having to pay royalties to the Monsantos of the world.
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My secret dream has always been to be a jazz musician. I tried the saxophone for a year or two when I was younger, but unfortunately I had to face the fact that I was not really talented!
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I don't think of myself as hot or cool or anything, just a dork.
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You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it.
