Katarina Johnson-Thompson Quotes
Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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I loved the world of imagination.
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There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.
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You know you've made your mark when you're on the cover of a videogame.
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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When I started out, there was so much work that I couldn't think of doing anything else. I would go for recordings by 8.30 A.M., that, too, in trains. I used to come home at night. I was travelling alone everywhere.
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The fact we don't have a lunar base has nothing to do with the technology. It has to do with public commitment and societal support.
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I do not consider myself beautiful.
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As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.
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It's always cool to go to different places and see what's really out there in the world.
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I've got a couple of Harleys and a couple of Ducatis.
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How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?
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I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.
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Even city people have ancestors who had their hands in the dirt.
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It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different.
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Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures.
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I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I found myself constantly hanging out in the kitchen.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything a man can do but looking 1,000 percent like a lady.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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All the Chinese have to do is fly around the Moon and back, and they'll appear to have won the return to the Moon with humans. They could put one person on the surface of the Moon for one day and he'd be a national hero.
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Don't waste your time in the race looking back to see what the other guy is doing. It's not about the other guy. It's about what can you do. You just need to run that race as hard as you can. You need to give it everything you've got, all the time, for yourself.
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If you want to put out a million CDs and sell them and get them played on the radio, and even videos, or whatever, if that still exists, that kind of muscle can only come from a label like Columbia.
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I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
