Jonathan Brownlee Quotes
Athletes can be a very stressy bunch. We like routine. I'm a very routined person. If something changes, I really don't like it.
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I'm pretty gross. When I talk I can be gross and crude.
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I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don't live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.
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There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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Well, first I have to make the team, of course.
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Sometimes we make films just for our people, and it doesn't reach to anyone.
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If longevity is the best index to measure a company, a basic requirement is the ability of the corporation to generate new and new leaders.
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I heard somewhere that whenever you write a book, people will ask you One Question about it over and over. And while I'm no expert in these matters, this is proving to be true. My first book dealt with a not-that-pleasant degenerate type, and the One Question was, 'Is this an autobiographical story?'
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I like to say there's certain things you can't take back: One of them is 'I love you,' and one of them is bullets.
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Deterrence is still fundamentally about influencing an actor's decisions. It is about a solid policy foundation. It is about credible capabilities. It is about what the U.S. and our allies as a whole can bring to bear in both a military and a nonmilitary sense.
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Give me a highly successful unionized industry.
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I remember when I got into Juilliard - which was just crazy to me, that I would be studying at a school like that - the choice to cut all my hair off was really symbolic for me.
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A utopian future for the Internet could be secured if the heavy-duty influencers - and the grassroots influencers tweeting along - can create a new global organization peopled with defenders of Internet freedom.
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I think that there are always goals for me to try to achieve, and I'm going to work toward those goals.
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Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it's religion. It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment.
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One of the best things people could do for their descendents would be to sharply limit the number of them.
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Whether it's eight o'clock in the morning or eight o'clock at night, I always try to greet others before they have a chance to speak to me.
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You can't be a conqueror in your own home.
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I think every relationship has a point where you stop and reevaluate. Are you happy? Have you grown together or apart? What do you share interests in? I think that's a normal thing to do, but it's so much harder when it's done publicly.
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Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert.
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Everybody has his own great ideas about what my art should be. But I can do whatever I like and there aren't many constraints to the way I work, whether I'm using a brush with ink or paint.
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He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own.
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Athletes can be a very stressy bunch. We like routine. I'm a very routined person. If something changes, I really don't like it.
