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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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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The Soviet State does not need either illusions or camouflage. It can claim only that world authority which is confirmed by the facts.
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We, as extremely complex creatures, desperately need to know this story of how the universe creates complexity and why complexity means vulnerability and fragility.
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Once when Harry asked Ed why they didn't go back to Toledo, Ed looked at him with that smartass squint and asked, 'You ever been to Toledo?'
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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Courage is knowing what not to fear.
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In 1968, in the midst of the tumultuous 1960s, the Olympics were much more than just another event.
