Katarina Johnson-Thompson Quotes
I can handle coming fifth as long as I know I've given my all out there and have no regrets.
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I'm from a very close-knit family, and there was something very... I guess you could say normal, about it, and I so appreciate that. We all ate dinner together every single night, and my mom stayed at home with us. I owe a lot to my parents.
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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We must do our part to end poverty in Korea so that the next generation doesn't experience what we are going through now.
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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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I had trouble with my temper all the way through the minor leagues.
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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All of the songs my grandparents and parents listened to are called boleros - they're all love songs. They're about giving your heart to a person. It's a culture that is so romantic and passionate, and that's something that I'm very proud of. We grew up with nothing, so we just want to live a life full of love.
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Actors play different characters in every project they do. Though it has nothing to do with my craft, the red carpet gives me the opportunity to show who I really am and be myself.
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Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel, just for once, that everything is going our way.
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SAP is a great company, but they have their work cut out for them if they want to compete in databases.
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who've been around. You have to take the next step and bet on the next generation.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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We have, essentially, a worthless democracy.
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So I have this ability, if I may say so, to spot talent.
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One thing a lot of people don't know about Fun. was that the three of us all came from 10 years of touring with our own projects. That's how we met, actually.
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I had already done a lot of research for Rough Riders, keeping notebooks and old photographs. Some of the books were antiques for that time period, with the covers falling off.
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I've played many criminals, but I loved playing somebody on the right side of the law who had a family and who had ethics.
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White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.
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Without social media, I wouldn't have young girls messaging me from Australia or Mexico City or the Midlands, but I do wonder if I'd be on it if it wasn't part of my job.
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I can handle coming fifth as long as I know I've given my all out there and have no regrets.
