Katarina Johnson-Thompson Quotes
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There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.
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Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.
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If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.
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Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.
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What you are comes to you.
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I've always liked to dress up; I've always liked to look good. You look good, you feel good, you play good.
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Often I pretended to a cameraman to know less than I did. That way I got more cooperation.
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That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there to take you away from your problems, and rock and roll all night and party every day for those two hours you're at the concert.
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Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse.
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I've started working on a new album, I'm writing a new book... there are a lot of good things on the horizon.
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For the future world-trading regime to mirror economic reality and to allow the use of modern business strategies, we need a single overarching multilateral framework for trade. We can have either a flat world or a patchwork of crisscrossing mountain ranges and tunnels.
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I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.
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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too.
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I did Broadway shows. And I started realizing that this is actually how I'm going to make my living. So maybe I should try to do television and film and make a better living and get an occasional residual check so I can pay a mortgage someday.
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Astronauts cannot pick their nicknames and can only get their nicknames from other astronauts. Any astronaut who tries to give himself a cool nickname will regret it by getting just the opposite from his astronaut friends.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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One of my life philosophies is that you have a choice to make when you're doing something creative. You can be cheesy... or you can be lame.
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You don't not want to beat somebody because you're friends with them.
