Peggy Fleming Quotes
In 1968, in the midst of the tumultuous 1960s, the Olympics were much more than just another event.
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The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.
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If I have the choice of traveling to Russia, India or New Zealand alone for a week for preliminary discussions or to spend that week with my family, I routinely choose my family.
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I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.
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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.'
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In high school, I used to draw on my arms with a Sharpie. I knew I was gonna have a lot of tattoos. I'm not exactly classified as an artist, so my drawings could only go so far as I could take 'em. Now my tats are all a story: There's not one I can remember where I got a tat just to get a tat. It's all a part of me. I don't think I'm finished yet.
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You always read stories of people going out to California and making it as an actor with, like, two dollars, so I figured I'd try it.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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I know all the books of the Bible.
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I'm the type of guy who likes to be there 24-7. I'm Mr. Roses.
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I love a great melody and wonderful lyrics that speak from the heart, and my music has that and speaks about it; but there's just something that was really raw and energetic about the early House music. It's hard to describe. It's like you had to go to these parties where the stuff was being played on these huge sound systems to really feel it.
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The American insanity for Loving Everybody is ruining my good temper and delivering my stomach to enormous bouts with acidity.
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All is interrelated. Heaven and earth, air and water. All are but one thing; not four, not two and not three, but one. Where they are not together, there is only an incomplete piece.
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The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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Ἐγὼ γὰρ οὐκ εἰ δυστυχῶ, τοῦδ' εἵνεκαθέλοιμ' ἂν ὡς πλείστοισι πημονὰς τυχεῖν.
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A veces lo que deseo y lo que no deseo se hacen tantas concesiones que llegan a parecerse.
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I'm not used to introspection. I've never lingered on my feelings. The show must go on.
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For me, I don't need to juice to make weight for my fights. I just do it for the health benefits - to keep my body healthy and to get my greens in me.
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My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy.
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I do love the evolution of people in general. I think it's a beautiful thing when someone progresses and evolves in life.
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I don't understand some people, using biblical terms to criticize me when this is just a game.
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Even 51 per cent of a nation can establish a totalitarian and dictatorial règime, suppress minorities, and still remain democratic; there is, as we have said, little doubt that the American Congress and the French Chambre have a power over their respective nations which would rouse the envy of a Louis XIV or a George III were they alive today.
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In 1968, in the midst of the tumultuous 1960s, the Olympics were much more than just another event.
