Bonnie Blair Quotes
I wasn't really expecting me to win the gold in this race. To get another medal for myself and for the U.S. was a pretty good thing to happen, I'd say.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
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I would wear entirely one color: tutus, furry pants. It was totally outrageous. My family was deeply embarrassed to be seen with me.
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My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.
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I still enjoy doing the things I've always done, like going to a monthly dance party at a club downtown.
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I've never been one to want to be the center of attention and be put up on stages every night. That's just not really my personality. I'm comfortable with it now, but my real passion is being creative.
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When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.
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Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.
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Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world.
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I'd like to help educate kids about the Major Leagues - what to anticipate, what to expect, what they'll need to do to prepare themselves.
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I would love to do something like 'Fishing With John.'
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Ask Jeeves! Who ever used that thing? College freshmen to find out who Goethe was - that's it.
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My government has promised to comprehensively respect the independence of the judiciary.
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We've only explored about 5% of our ocean. There are great discoveries yet to be made down there - fantastic creatures representing millions of years of evolution and possibly bioactive compounds that could benefit us in ways we can't even imagine.
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The pancreas is by far the most complex organ in the body.
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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
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If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.
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After all, didn't I blow a magnificent career?
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I miss my former teachers, John Hersey and James Alan McPherson. I would love to see either or both and ask what I could do to improve, to deepen my writing.
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I think I'd be a really good dad. So perhaps I'm doing society a disservice by not having as many kids as possible.
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I wasn't really expecting me to win the gold in this race. To get another medal for myself and for the U.S. was a pretty good thing to happen, I'd say.
