Katarina Johnson-Thompson Quotes
It's a huge step up from the European Indoor Championships to being world outdoor gold medallist.
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Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself very complicated but it has lots of underground complications.
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The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.
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Watch your finances like a hawk.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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Even under Obamacare, there are people that get subsidized insurance. But that has a $6,000 deductible. What do you think they do with that $6,000 deductible? They are still a nonpayer.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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I think I've owned all the models of iPods so far. And these days between my iPod, iPhone and my personal laptop computer, I'm someone who is very, very grateful for all the ways to listen to music and completely switch off from people around me and listen to the music in detail, which is very hard to do if you're in a room with other people.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn't something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
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I think there are a very few pro-lifers who would say that a zygote in a petri dish is the equivalent of you or me; it's just younger. If you can say that without laughing, maybe you are a true pro-lifer. But I think most people are able or willing to make distinctions that show they maybe don't quite believe that.
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I think is very beneficial to relax yourself so that when you are doing it you are not staggering for lines and your concentration is not on what I am going to say - but the scene itself, the character that you are talking to.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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Especially in the day and age now with social media and cameraphones and things like that, you always have to act like you're being watched.
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If the same phrase in the same place created the right effect, I was perfectly prepared to use it every time. I wasn't worried that I wasn't improvising.
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There's this guy: his name, Sedik Ali. He's like the African Kurosawa. You know how Kurosawa does stuff from feudal Japan? This guy does the feudal system of Africa.
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I'm a genuine person - I will never promote something I don't believe in.
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'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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We thought we were going to have a girl, so we had 15 girls' names lined up and a little boy popped out. We had no idea, and we had hardly any boys' names.
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It's a huge step up from the European Indoor Championships to being world outdoor gold medallist.
