Katarina Johnson-Thompson Quotes
Very few athletes get to experience a home Games, and I don't want to pass up the chance.
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When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving people so much of yourself, and my voice is the most natural, distinctive tool I have. It's up to me to express myself on a wider scale than just writing vocal melodies and lyrics.
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Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
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I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.
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In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.
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When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know about people. If I can't say something good about a person, I don't want to say anything. And since I don't want to say anything bad, I won't write a book.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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My job is to put myself out there. It's beyond my control how I'm perceived.
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My theory is that balance is key - nothing in excess.
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New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.
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On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and remains one of the most interesting figures of music history in the past century.
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My music is almost like vomit! It's a horrible way to put it, but I feel it, I say it, and I doubt myself all the time throughout my whole life, but when it comes to music, I just don't. I don't doubt myself.
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It is hard to think of practical applications of the black hole. Because practical applications are so remote, many people assume we should not be interested. But this quest to understand the world is what defines us as human beings.
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Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.
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Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they're transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.
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I wouldn't mind producing a movie with a music storyline, but acting in one is too close to home.
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I wish we all would get up and go into the labs and take the animals out or burn them down.
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When I was growing up, my family was plagued by poverty. My mother, a single parent, worked around the clock to make sure her children - me, my five brothers, and three sisters - could eat and have a safe place to sleep. We hardly saw her.
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People were telling me it was refreshing I was real because previous 'X Factor' winners were too afraid to say anything. I decided to go against the grain. But I took it too far.
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Very few athletes get to experience a home Games, and I don't want to pass up the chance.
