Katarina Johnson-Thompson Quotes
Every international meeting or championship I do, I can cope a lot better because I can say I did the 100 m. hurdles, opened up the athletics at an Olympic Games in front of a home crowd, 80,000 people.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
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My dream date is a tall, dark, handsome, blue eyed man with a bubble butt who will whisk me away to Paris in a hot air balloon to wine me, dine me and.
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Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it's public records or ethics, it's not like throwing a stone in a quiet pond. It's like throwing a boulder.
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People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
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It is the original idea that is unique, not the object itself.
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As long as you keep one foot in the real world while the other foot's in a fairy tale, that fairy tale is going to seem kind of attainable.
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The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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Live shows are pretty much like the center of the storm... where the power comes from, the most raw experience. That's the juice. That's where we hit the hardest.
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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
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Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
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Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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All religions are, in some basic sense, irrational.
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DSP is not only a music director for many of my films, but he is also a very dear friend.
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My work is not great, but it's respectable. I have no false illusions.
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Many of our leaders have gone past the old-fashioned politics of the democratic era and entered into the politics of fear. People running for national office no longer emphasize their views about the economy or social change. The leading political question of our time has become: who can ease our nightmares?
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I liked playing with David Eckstein (former Angels shortstop). I'm not talking about players with top skills, I'm sure there were players with way more skill than him, but there were very few people in the league that had the heart like him.
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Every international meeting or championship I do, I can cope a lot better because I can say I did the 100 m. hurdles, opened up the athletics at an Olympic Games in front of a home crowd, 80,000 people.
