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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I am not interested in medals or titles. I don't need them. I need the love of the public and I fight for it.
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Day turned to night, His friends scattered and death thought it had won. But heaven just started counting to three.
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I was still in the college and they told me I should try it. At the time, I still thought I was going to be an Olympic softball player. But later, when I retired from softball in 2007, I decided to give bobsled a try. I emailed the coach and got invited to Lake Placid for a tryout and I never left.
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As an athlete, my first Olympic experience was Sydney 2000. I remember seeing people getting medals, and I thought, 'Wow, that's where I want to be.'
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The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else.
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We can't all win Olympic medals. Even I never won one.
