Jonathan Brownlee Quotes
I was good at swimming until everyone started to grow. The best swimmers are really tall with great big shoulders, and that just isn't us. But then a big, powerful swimmer isn't going to be so good on the bike and the run.
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Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.
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I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images.
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So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.
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The years go so fast. I mean, I just realized that at the end of the year I will be twenty-two, and I just turned twenty-one.
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'Free State of Jones' went beyond that. It got into how the South wasn't as homogenous as we thought it was - or even the North for that matter, where we like to assume everyone wanted to free the slaves and they were all abolitionists. It actually shows how complex these ideologies were on both sides.
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What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.
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I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it.
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People are really paying attention to the comic-book genre, and there's a lot of time and attention being invested in these projects with a wonderful sense of quality control.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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I have been the victim of heartless malice.
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I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen they were reading about.
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After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.
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If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
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I grew up really poor and have always been the type of person who will work earlier or work harder or more than the other person to even the playing field.
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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
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You don't choose your public; your public chooses you.
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To be understood is to prostitute yourself.
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Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country.
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France has good offensive rebounding and is quick in the transition. Rebounding will be the key.
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My kids know the importance of being active – and that's why teaming up with the USTA was such an organic fit for me. They are making strives to get families outside – and using tennis as a way to get kids to stay active.
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I was good at swimming until everyone started to grow. The best swimmers are really tall with great big shoulders, and that just isn't us. But then a big, powerful swimmer isn't going to be so good on the bike and the run.
