Katarina Johnson-Thompson Quotes
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Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.
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It's one of the reasons I don't do drugs. One sniff and I'd go all the way.
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I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security.
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I don't think immigrants are that threatening to society at all. They're just happy they've survived some war somewhere.
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Tom Brokaw was never young.
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I read about violent things. I think what I get out of that is entertainment by learning about different things, and reading the genre and getting an understanding of motivations. But at the end of the day, it's still a book, and I can walk away.
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An alliance of civilisations can be our most powerful weapon in the fight against terror.
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My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.
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It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.
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After 'Lindbergh,' my publisher asked whom I wanted to write about next. I said, 'There's one idea I've been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It's Woodrow Wilson.'
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It's very scary to turn things down, but a project has to really mean something to me. I'm not interested in making a lot of money.
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I think when it comes to pop I'm past the point of curiosity. I admit to a full-on obsession with it, and I think it's getting worse, actually.
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If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.
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As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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Keep your energy levels high by adding bananas and egg whites to your diet.
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I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type.
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When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.
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The difference between our family and other poor families was that my mother actively chose to be poor. She was highly literate, and she had a college degree, but after my father left, she took the first secretarial job she could find and never looked for other employment again.
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I took the whole college prep trajectory, and then in my senior year of high school, I decided that performing was something that I had always done as a kid, and I loved it... I said, 'This makes people happy when I do this, I feel good, I get to pretend and explore other areas and learn so much'.
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After a long time spent learning how to write as a woman instead of as an honorary man, I was able to come back to Earthsea and write the next three books in another and newer tradition: that of questioning, rather than accepting, the gendering of power as male.
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I feel like, when I'm 100% healthy, I can do anything.
