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 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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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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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 read autobiographies because there is too much fiction in my life.
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I've already fought my share. God gave me a rich, eventful career, and I thank God for everything, but I'm done fighting.
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The main interest of most members of the Christian Coalition is the breakdown of the family. I think that's our biggest problem, and if the whole country was as concerned and active in issues of the family as members of the Christian Coalition are, we'd probably be better off as a country.
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I have the great good fortune that one of my collaborators in work, Anne Case, is also my collaborator in life.
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Industry executives sacrificed art for what sells and mega-stars now saturate the market with the same tired lyrics.
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Oh, If I should die tonightOh baby, though it be far before my timeI won't die blue, sugar yeah'Cause I've known you.
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Words are but empty thanks.
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I believe I've accomplished my goals of trying to get better every year, and a little bit of that, a little bit of luck, a little bit of everything just falls in place, and you end up on top.
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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.
