Bonnie Langford Quotes
I am probably more critical of myself than anyone else, I am very tiny - 5'1 and a half inches - so there's nowhere for weight to hide.
Quotes to Explore
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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I just want to be the best. I haven't been in an all-out war. That doesn't mean I'm not the best.
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Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.
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I really connect to strong feminist writers that make their ideas accessible for the rest of the world.
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It's such a weird thing: to sit and look at yourself is so distracting to the psyche. It would be like me standing in front of a mirror and looking at myself all day, trying to find a flaw.
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The Olympics have their own unique atmosphere and energy. People might say it's just the same as any other competition, but don't kid yourself. There's a hunger for victory.
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Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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We're still leaderless. We still don't have strong organizations that are fighting for us; there isn't a national AIDS organization out there worth squat in my opinion.
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When a song wants to be written, it will be written.
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Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.
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The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children, and then sell them into interminable bondage, with no other motive than that which is furnished by dollars and cents, is so much worse than the most depraved murderer that he can never receive pardon at my hand.
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I guess I'm just a frustrated cowboy.
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Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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It's time to close Gitmo.
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The majority of the economic oscillations which we encounter seem to be explained most plausibly as free oscillations.
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Wishful thinking gives false gods to people who hunger for gods, but those who yearn for a world with no gods are no less likely to fall victim to their own wishful thinking.
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I didn't love him, but I liked him being in love with me.
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The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything.
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I felt self-conscious going out in the street prior to ever even being in a movie. That's just me.
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Valuing differences is what really drives synergy. Do you truly value the mental, emotional, and psychological differences among people? Or do you wish everyone would just agree with you so you could all get along? Many people mistake uniformity for unity; sameness for oneness. One word--boring! Differences should be seen as strengths, not weaknesses. They add zest to life.
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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From my first dunk at 14 years old to my second NCAA Championship at the University of Tennessee, my intense training with my dad was always to credit.
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I am probably more critical of myself than anyone else, I am very tiny - 5'1 and a half inches - so there's nowhere for weight to hide.
