Katarina Johnson-Thompson Quotes
I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.
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I do a lot of speaking about energy and environment. But that's more a second job than a hobby. Hobby-wise, I love the outdoors - hiking, biking, kayaking, swimming, scuba diving. Because I spend almost all of my life in front of a screen, time in nature is especially important, I think.
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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Courtship is like simmering mutton. You cook for hours and hours to taste the soft meat. It doesn't happen in two seconds!
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Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.
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I was an expert horseman.
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How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.
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I never pile a plate to the point where it overflows. I'd rather have a small plate with small portions and then get up for more if I'm still hungry.
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The challenge for a writer looking at history is to figure out what is history and what is myth. After all, what you are looking at is an interpretation of history, and so at some level, it becomes an interpretation of an interpretation.
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
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I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.
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When you're a kid, to be honest, you could be in the worst situation ever, but you're still going to have ways to enjoy it.
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History is not hatred.
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Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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To be honest, I never really wrapped my mind around winning.
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You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.
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People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'
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Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.
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I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
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I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
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I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.
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I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.
