Katarina Johnson-Thompson Quotes
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There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns.
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We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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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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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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I do not consider myself beautiful.
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I'll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I'll still eat the one cookie... sometimes two, or even three. But not the whole box.
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A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.
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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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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
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Decolonisation seems to have dented little the sense of superiority that since 1945 has made American leaders in particular consistently underestimate the intensity of nationalist feeling in Asia and Africa.
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We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.
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A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.
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As soon as I began to earn what might be called fairly large sums, I bought a car and began to explore the country around New York.
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I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing.
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Sometimes parts just come along when it's the perfect time for you to do them.
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The war in Iraq has fractured the political will of the United States and the world.
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"A humble and prayerful person will find a thousand things in the Bible, which the proud student will utterly fail to discern." ~ J.C. Ryle
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It is no exaggeration to conclude that the Internet has achieved, and continues to achieve, the most participatory marketplace of mass speech that this country - and indeed the world - has yet seen.
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We are all trying to achieve our dreams.
