Simone Manuel Quotes

I want to be an inspiration, but I would like there to be a day when it is not 'Simone the black swimmer.'

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• I'm an actress, not a pinup.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Actress

• Cornwall bears a certain resemblance to Italy: each is like a leg or boot, but Italy stands a-tiptoe to the south, whereas Cornwall is thrust out to the west. But, whereas Italy is kicking Sicily as a football, Cornwall has but the shattered group of the Scilly Isles at its toe.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Football
  • Group
  • Leg

• In high school and college, I did not have any Christian friends except my best friend Sarah, who I actually 'brought to Jesus.'

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • School
  • Friends
  • High

• A cat is never vulgar.

  

  Carl Van Vechten
  • Never
  • Cat
  • Vulgar

• I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Play
  • Hand
  • Best

• What we want to do is put a price on greenhouse gases. Because if they're more expensive, businesses will find a way to be more efficient or switch to solar or hydro or wind power. So that will reduce emissions.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Power
  • Wind
  • Price

• I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Artist

• I've learned so many things from directors in my acting career. There are even some things I've learned that I didn't want to do. There are those directors who've really made me shine and others who've made me opaque.

  

  Valeria Golino
  • Career
  • Me
  • Acting

• When it comes down to music, I have no balance. I am 100 percent. It is like full throttle. Five hundred miles an hour.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Balance

• I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Why
  • Hate
  • Look

• Most pieces take between two and three weeks and involve more than 40 people from the fabric cutters to the embroiders to the sewers. It's an elaborate undertaking.

  

  Naeem Khan
  • People
  • Two
  • Three

• I eat a lot. I probably eat more than anybody that I know. I'll go on set and get a plate of bacon, a bagel, an omelet, boiled eggs, fresh fruit, oatmeal, fresh juice, potatoes, basically anything that's there. I don't mean that I alternate between these things. I'll eat all of this for breakfast.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Know
  • Breakfast
  • Fruit

• And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you'd ever come across.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Heart
  • Guy
  • Faith

• I have a simple mantra: eat right and work out; you'll never have a weight issue. I never starve or binge.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Work
  • Simple
  • Never

• Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Work
  • Humanity
  • Child

• I tried my hand at photography and worked with a studio for six months.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Hand
  • Photography
  • Six

• It is a fact not to be disputed, that the aristocracy have not 'progressed ' in proportion to the other classes. A young nobleman of the present day has not a better education than his ancestor in the time of Elizabeth.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Time
  • Education
  • Present

• In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • People
  • Nature
  • Japanese

• Men are no more immune from emotions than women; we think women are more emotional because the culture lets them give free vent to certain feelings, "feminine" ones, that is, no anger please, but it's okay to turn on the waterworks.

  

  Ian Stannard
  • Men
  • Women
  • Free

• I definitely want to get out of tennis and try something completely different.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Different
  • Want
  • Try

• During one new moon at perigee, I stood on high ground, watching salt ponds overflow, cover the beach, and meet the ocean. Because the moon was invisible, the water was black as it drowned the sand, and the event felt primal - which in fact it was, because it was nature.

  

  Luanne Rice
  • High
  • Nature
  • Black

• You always have a choice — So what now,? — Well, just picture where you want to be... and read the story until the end.

  

  Fábio Moon
  • Want
  • Choice
  • To Be

• I want to be an inspiration, but I would like there to be a day when it is not 'Simone the black swimmer.'

  

  Simone Manuel
  • Want
  • Black
  • Inspiration