Mary Decker Quotes
I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them.
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My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.
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The very first time a politician puts you in his target is sometimes a disappointment, because perhaps you thought you were friends and getting along well... But it is not something that you dwelled on. At least, I did not.
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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
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To my knowledge, no one has died from a cyberattack... but there is a gray area between peace and war.
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I grew up on Marvel and, like, '2000 AD.'
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The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he's a Schwarzenegger Republican.
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How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?
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I can't understand why someone wouldn't have a degree of sympathy for people that had to flee their country, travel to try and find their home somewhere, and nobody wants them. How could you not be a little bit sympathetic?
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
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If we don't enforce visa laws, we basically have open borders.
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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
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Warwick Davies is a cracking actor. The opening scene in the last 'Harry Potter' film, where he plays a captured Griphook, is mesmerising. His pacing is sublime, and the menace and regret he builds into the scene is fantastic.
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I'm a vulnerable, sensitive person. I overthink everything.
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Frankly, most of my friends hold very different political beliefs. It's just a funny thing in this country that supposedly you can't sit down and have dinner and enjoy another person's company if you don't have the same beliefs. It's ridiculous.
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I find if my character is more glamorous, I become more conscious of what I look like.
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Sometimes you have to suck it up and call a number.
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I have such bad memories, sitting in the back of a classroom, being told, you know, everybody is going to read a paragraph, and skipping ahead to my paragraph and being mortified and trying to read it enough times so that I wouldn't stutter and stammer, getting called on, even in high school.
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It's a perfect wave when small and the most beautiful and scary wave on Earth when it's big, as the swell from deep water hits the shallow reef ledge. A ten-foot high wave and a 30-footer break in the same depth of water.
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I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them.
