John Sweeney Quotes

I was invincible, at least that's what I wanted you to think, and I wanted me to think it, too.

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• I try to work out with my personal trainer for an hour, four times a week - we mainly concentrate on weights and running. If I'm on the road I sometimes do DVD work-outs in my hotel room - P90X and Insanity are a couple of my favourites.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Work
  • Running
  • Insanity

• Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite.

  

  Katharine Anthony
  • Dangerous
  • Principles

• A family is really a union of two separate entities. When you get married, you are marrying one family into another.

  

  Patricia Rae
  • Family
  • You
  • Union

• But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • People
  • Products
  • Buying

• I do not... look very feminine. Diana, Princess of Wales is feminine... I am... femi-none.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Look
  • Princess
  • Feminine

• My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Children
  • School
  • Bad

• I don't know if my songs fit in films.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Know
  • Songs
  • Fit

• Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.

  

  Vida Blue
  • Good
  • Game
  • Sometimes

• In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on the experiences of the past, in the endeavor to discover improvements, in his particular sphere of action, which are practicable in the immediate future.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Future
  • Past
  • Action

• My mom didn't use face cream, like, nothing at all. She's got great skin and looks very youthful.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Mom
  • Face
  • Skin

• My children are grown now, they are more independent.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Children
  • Independent
  • Now

• My dad wanted me to play football so bad, he took me to Washington High School on the west side of Atlanta because they were number one. They never lost.

  

  Young Thug
  • Dad
  • Play
  • Football

• You can easily say, 'I can go 56', but how are you going to do that?

  

  Adam Peaty
  • You
  • Say
  • I Can

• When a handful of tech giants are gatekeepers to the world's data, it's no surprise that the debate about balancing progress against privacy is framed as 'pro-data and, therefore, innovation' versus 'stuck in the Dark Ages'.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • World
  • Dark
  • Progress

• I am popular with certain people, but I'm still blocked out of the establishment. I hate that incestuous world. It makes me sick. It's impossible for anything truly original to get done. Thinking is not allowed. It's all PC. It is so horrible because it is a fossilized, parasitic version of Sixties philosophy.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• Death is, in some ways, unacceptable. It’s just an astonishing fact of our being here that we die; but I think worse than that is if we live long enough, we lose everyone we love in this world. I mean people die and disappear, and we’re left with this stark mystery: just the sheer not knowing of what happened to them.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • World
  • Long

• Sometimes the things we want most are the hardest to get. That means you need to be even more determined to succeed. That's what it takes to be a winner. You have to want it bad enough to stick with it no matter how tough things get.

  

  Chuck Norris
  • Bad

• For myself and for our Nation, I want to thank my predecessor for all he has done to heal our land. In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Done
  • Spiritual

• Here in L.A., there are a lot of dead spots, and you have to drive to find energy, but all of India is so energetic.

  

  Chris Kattan
  • Energy

• I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.

  

  Jimmy Wales
  • College
  • Sports
  • Professional

• You're going to write straight and simple and good now. That's the start.''What if I'm not straight and simple and good? Do you think I can write that way?''Write how you are but make it straight.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Simple

• Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it. I was going to be a lawyer, but I got saved.

  

  Alan Dean Foster
  • Up
  • Why
  • Science

• The problems that the world faces - from nuclear proliferation to climate change - can't be tackled by the West alone. They need a coalition of not just West and East, but they need a coalition of Christian and Jew and Muslim.

  

  David Miliband
  • World
  • Alone
  • Christian

• I was invincible, at least that's what I wanted you to think, and I wanted me to think it, too.

  

  John Sweeney