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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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was vigorously and vociferously opposed by the Southern states. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into law nonetheless.
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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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Do I feel any pressure as the most decorated Winter Olympian in American history? None at all. The only pressures that I know I face are those of how to pay it forward: How can I continually make a positive impact in people's lives, help others achieve their dreams, create their own Olympic mindset, creating champions within themselves?
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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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We can't all win Olympic medals. Even I never won one.
