Jade Jones Quotes

I think it's when I won the Youth Olympics I thought, 'I can really get gold in London.'

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• Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

  

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• I think the mental victory is worth it as much as a gold medal.

  

  Cameron van der Burgh
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• When the dollar was separated entirely from gold in 1971, it ceased being the official IMF world currency and finally had to compete with other currencies... From that point forward, its value increasingly became discounted.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
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• Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.

  

  Dan O'Brien
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• The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
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• Just like gold, which has to weather very high temperatures to achieve the sheen and shine it finally gets, so also every person has to go through struggles in his life to achieve success.

  

  Kailash Kher
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• I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.

  

  Aaron Huey
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• I'm just glad my gold medal's at home, because I'd hate to try to win another.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
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• The euro is a hybrid of a fixed exchange-rate regime, like the 1980s ERM or the 1930s gold standard, and a state currency.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
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• Medieval alchemists, despite their lust for gold, considered mercury the most potent and poetic substance in the universe. As a child, I would have agreed with them.

  

  Sam Kean
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• Yeah, that's what kind of, we get the idea a little bit yeah, because other people from different countries also try as hard as they can to get a medal or a gold medal in the Olympic Games. And you know, if they can work hard, we can work hard as well.

  

  Inge de Bruijn
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• Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• I haven't let the gold medal out of my sight; it sleeps next to me in bed.

  

  Magdalena Neuner
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• When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code, but a character.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
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• The only thing I really, really want is for the U.S. to win again. Just to win another team gold. And, of course I would really want to win an all-around gold.

  

  Carly Patterson
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• A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

  

  Samuel Butler
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• All men cannot go to college, but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have, for the talented few, centers of training where men are not so mystified and befuddled by the hard and necessary toil of earning a living as to have no aims higher than their bellies and no God greater than Gold.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
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• Your life is worth much more than gold.

  

  Bob Marley
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• The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California.

  John Moody
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• Whenever I've done a sketch in which I'm asked to play a mom, my brain goes to Minnesota. It makes the character seem matronly, warm, the kind of person that takes care of you and brings you Campbell's soup when you're sick. It's a great shortcut.

  

  Allison Tolman
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• It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.

  

  Ira Glass
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• Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money.

  

  David Lynch The Platters
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• I think it's when I won the Youth Olympics I thought, 'I can really get gold in London.'

  

  Jade Jones
  • Gold