Mia Hamm Quotes
The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.
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When I was sixteen years old, I was sentenced to two years in prison; the Swedish government changed it, so I could go to a boarding school as part of a social programme. I was in this boarding school with some of the richest kids in Sweden.
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But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.
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I hope to get out before they start football next year.
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I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my acting jobs, I didn't want to do that. I didn't want to spend another three years being institutionalised, and I feel that getting out of that system benefited me in quite a few ways.
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I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
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Winston Cup and the Busch Series are two totally different leagues. You get put in different situations.
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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There are some musicians who are talented and see themselves as some kind of natural geniuses or something because of a certain amount of natural ability. But that is often rarely the case over the long term.
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The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy.
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I wasn't a rebel.
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If we just made one movie, 'The Hobbit,' the fact is that all the fans, the eight-, nine- and 10-year-old boys, they would watch it 1,000 times. Now, they've got three films they can watch 1,000 times.
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Because of the feminist perspective, we have gotten a view of the world that is distorted.
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People could live very happily without the Turner Prize, but they could not live without real communication and emotion.
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Puerto Rican culture is very different from Mexican culture. Part of the Mexican psychology is the idea of being an immigrant or being illegal or being confused with that. That doesn't happen with Puerto Ricans, because you're a commonwealth.
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The debut film came much easier to me than it would have if I was an outsider.
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In our generation, the role models were Gandhi and Nehru. We revered them. They were venerated personalities. I read almost every speech of Nehru.
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No one wants perfection. I want a confident, smart guy, obviously, but what's hot is a guy who doesn't have all the answers. We gals like a guy we can help because, ultimately, we like being needed.
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People tune into court shows because they want to learn something and see resolution quickly.
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I find I have to walk a little faster in public these days, but it's very easy to remember when nobody had any idea who I was.
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There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
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Even if we can solve the carbon problem for coal, it is still a non-renewable resource. At some point, coal supplies will drop.
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The American tradition of foreign policy exceptionalism, our grand strategy as a nation, reaches back much further. Really at the turn - the end of the 19th century, when we achieved power a generation after the Civil War, the outlines of an American vision came into focus, and what we - it was based on two things. One, our realization that our values and our interests were the same, and that our business interests would advance as our values advanced in the world.
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The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.
