Jonathan Brownlee Quotes
I remember watching the 2000 Sydney Olympics, with my nose right up to the screen, knowing there and then that I wanted a sporting career.
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I don't have a phone, but I do have an iPad.
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
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I'm a good Catholic boy.
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I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end.
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When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.
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Why is it that a large majority of Hindus do not inter-dine and do not inter-marry? Why is it that your cause is not popular? There can be only one answer to this question, and it is that inter-dining and inter-marriage are repugnant to the beliefs and dogmas which the Hindus regard as sacred.
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I've always been more of a camera hog than anything, and it's just another way to get it all out!
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As a tennis player you can win and you can lose, and you have to be ready for both. I practised self-control as a kid. But as you get older they both - winning and losing - get easier.
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We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
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No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.
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I want to carry a show, but there are not a lot of leading parts for people who are not celebrities.
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I saw a lot of people have success handed to them that then exploited it. They didn't protect it or cherish it.
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To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
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Perhaps the biggest appreciation adjustment we need is toward the millions of men and women we call stepparents. We have taken for granted especially the stepparents who are raising no children of their own, and receiving no income from a significant other, but who have nevertheless chosen to invest love, time and money in children.
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I don't paint. I am a hobbyist photographer, so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter.
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My musical education started in the limelight, because I found myself surrounded by real musicians, but after my career had taken off.
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I remember watching the 2000 Sydney Olympics, with my nose right up to the screen, knowing there and then that I wanted a sporting career.
