Katarina Johnson-Thompson Quotes
I think everyone in the heptathlon is improving together, so it is a very hard event to compete in.
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.
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It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.
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The feather in your cap is to get a man you love who'll marry you.
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Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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My introduction to the Madonna Inn came as a young boy when we would take summer vacations to a nearby town. My dad would take us into their gift shop bathroom, which was a huge waterfall that functioned as the men's urinal. So as a kid, this was the most amazing thing I had ever seen.
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More than four thousand programs produced and consumed. Some of them were pretty good, a great many of them were forgettable; but a handful may even be worth a book.
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I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
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I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
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If it's a good day, I get 'The New York Times' on my iPad, and if I have a little time in the morning, I like to look at that while I'm eating.
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Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
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A pitcher will never be a big winner until he hates hitters.
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For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. The switch to the computer is when I actually start thinking about lines. That's the workhorse part. At that point, I'm being more mathematical about putting the poem on the page and less intuitive about the rhythm of the syntax.
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I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
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One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
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I lift heavy weights and sprint, but I am so bad at it that I develop severe injuries.
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America is inundated with polls. We need a term for being swamped with polls. I would say 'poll-arized,' but that's already in use to describe our political divisions.
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The need to speak, even if one has nothing to say, becomes more pressing when one has nothing to say, just as the will to live becomes more urgent when life has lost its meaning. (p. 30)
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Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.
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Anytime I listen to my gut and I don't do something, or I do, it always tends to work out in my favor.
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I think everyone in the heptathlon is improving together, so it is a very hard event to compete in.
