Katarina Johnson-Thompson Quotes
London 2012 was the biggest thing I will probably ever do, but I didn't realise it at the time!
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Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results.
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I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.
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You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
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When all are wrong, everyone is right.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I don't watch television. I'm not a TV guy.
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I had a lovely childhood. For family holidays, we went as far as the car could take us - we would drive to Florida, even though it would take three days. I didn't know we didn't have a lot of money because there was always food on the table. I didn't have a lot of stuff, but I did figure skating for a long time, and I always had my skates.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
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Marty Russo was too good a golfer to be a servant of the people.
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My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.
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There is no empirical evidence to suggest that ageing in humans has been modified by any means, nor is there evidence that it is even possible to measure biological age. And nothing has been demonstrated to be true when it comes to anti-ageing medicines.
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Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.
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You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.
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I'd love to adapt more contemporary novels. But there isn't really enough story and character to make a really satisfying serial, so they tend to be single dramas.
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My father was a coal hewer from Goldthorpe, a coal-mining village in South Yorkshire. He played for the Yorkshire second team as an opening fast bowler - to me he was a gorgeously heroic man. He helped form a union and closed down the Barnsley seam because it was seeping gas, and saved many, many lives.
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It is important to have safe borders, but at the same time, we can't forget what brought us here. This is an immigrant nation.
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My hair is an aesthetic choice… At the same time, how you wear your hair is a political statement as well.
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London 2012 was the biggest thing I will probably ever do, but I didn't realise it at the time!
