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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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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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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A Little Treasury of Modern Poetry is a standard Oscar Williams production... ...the book has the merit of containing a considerably larger selection of Oscar Williams’s poems than I have seen in any other anthology. There are nine of his poems - and five of Hardy’s. It takes a lot of courage to like your own poetry almost twice as well as Hardy’s.
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Bin Laden wasn't all that central to the terrorist network any more, but taking him down created a kind of national catharsis. It's been a really, really long time since we had something to celebrate that didn't involve a sports team. I'd rather it had been a non-death-related occasion, but we'll take what we can get.
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Our intellect does not draw its laws from nature, but it imposes its laws upon nature.
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There was absolutely no footing I don't know how you could come off the ball or cut. It was like some sort of amusement park ride.
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Women are allowed to enter the spaces of the senses, the space of the body, the spaces opened by sensations, all kinds of feelings, but women are not allowed to enter the spaces of reason to the same extent, that is to say the space of ideas, political ideas.
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The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must rise to the occasion.
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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.
