Esther Williams Quotes
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I am supposed to set an example to young players.
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I said, who the hell wants to speak about politics when I’m in front of the boy scouts, right?
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Never let your soul be silenced. Live life out loud. Every day tell your truth not with words but with actions from your heart.
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One wonders why there are so many women who follow Robespierre to his home, to the Jacobins, to the Cordeliers and to the Convention. It is because the French Revolution is a religion and Robespierre is one of its sects. He is a priest with his flock... Robespierre preaches, Robespierre censures, he is furious, serious, melancholic and exalted with passion. He thunders against the rich and the great. He lives on little and has no physical needs. He has only one mission: to talk. And he talks all the time.
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You cannot step into the same river twice.
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Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men.
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Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.
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I find coming up with a title the hardest part of writing a novel.
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I start at the beginning, mentally screaming every obscenity I can in alphabetical order. Then I start setting them to the tune of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat
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The story of a mother's life: Trapped between a scream and a hug.
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Sometimes you put things off. And you get addicted to putting things off.
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It should seem that it is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician.
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Wisdom disguises our wounds; it teaches us how to bleed in secret.
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My desire to compete has grown with each level of competition and is what still excites me today. I am blessed to have gone from the playground to winning a college national championship to representing my country and winning two Olympic gold medals.
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I still bump into Spurs fans who say: 'Why did you have to go?' I say back: 'What more could I have done?' I talk to them and I think they appreciate I had good reasons.
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There's nobody who would be willing to do an interview on a regular basis that you can't go and Google and find out what has happened to them in the past week. There's nobody.
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We can't all win Olympic medals. Even I never won one.
