Frank Shorter Quotes
Yes, winning the gold medal was undoubtedly the biggest day of my career - mostly because I won the way I had prepared to run it. It was a totally satisfying experience.
Quotes to Explore
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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Amazon is holding its own because the service it provides - offering millions of books and other items quickly and easily from home at any hour of the day or night - is a real one, and one that was impossible before there was an Internet.
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I don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.
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The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.
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I'm just being me on Instagram, and that's what I love about it. It's definitely personal, and it's, like, no one in my team would ever get my password for my Instagram. Like, that's a no-no.
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The leader of the market today may not necessarily be the leader tomorrow.
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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When I was 6, I opened my mouth and didn't stop singing. I had a voice and wanted to use it.
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It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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If I were to meet the most incredible man, and he just so happened to not make as much money as I do, I wouldn't hold it against him.
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I believe in something that maybe can be defined as the God in one's heart, in the heart of every human being, but not in a God who sits on high looking down on us and taking care of us and whom we bother with things trivial and weighty so that he will be good to us and arrange things for us here.
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As far being the face of boxing, I don't like to name myself that. I leave that up to the media and the fans.
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There is a vast quantity of religion current in the world which is not true, genuine Christianity. It passes muster, it satisfies sleepy consciences; but it is not good money. It is not the authentic reality that called itself Christianity in the beginning.
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A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
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There is always anxiety before a competition and it was no different for me today. It was only in the third round, with about 40 targets left, that I realised I could match the world record score.
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When my sister was diagnosed with cancer in 1989, her doctor told her that the cancer had probably been in her system for 10 years. By the time cancer's diagnosed, it's usually been around for quite a while.
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When capitalists are thwarted, deflected, or dispossessed, the generals and politicians,... and socialist intellectuals, are always amazed at how quickly the great physical means of production - the contested tokens of wealth and resources of nature - dissolve into so much scrap, ruined concrete, snarled wire, and wilderness.
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Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
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You write about experiences partly to understand what they mean, partly not to lose them to time. To oblivion. But there's always the danger of the opposite happening. Losing the memory of the experience itself to the memory of writing about it.
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I wore a mullet to the Grammys! I have no fear.
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Yes, winning the gold medal was undoubtedly the biggest day of my career - mostly because I won the way I had prepared to run it. It was a totally satisfying experience.
