Ian Thorpe Quotes
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As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.
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Be true to yourself and go with your instincts - don't be somebody you're not just to fit in.
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You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.
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One of the things you realize with a lot of high achievers: You have to figure out a way to make things their idea.
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Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people.
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There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like Laurence Olivier. So it's very flattering to be in their company.
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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.
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In Genesis 6:3, it says man can live to be 120, but there is no scientific basis for it.
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I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body... as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property.
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Let me make a solemn pledge before all of you, before the whole world and before God, that I will devote all my energy and all I possess in my power to serve the people of Nigeria and humanity.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
Of course, no one wants to ban the vote. Voting should remain available for sporting and recreational purposes. But certain types of votes clearly should be curtailed - 'assault votes,' for example, in which the only purpose of the vote is to harm others.
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In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge.
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Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It's extraordinary to have all those limits thrown out, to realize your love is inexhaustible.
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Once I'm in a situation where I can not do anything for three years and go off the map, I'll focus more on writing. Right now, I want to just make Flume awesome... and big.
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We spent most of our life almost like street rats just running around the street until we were ten years old.
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Suning from a management concept and technology point of view isn't simply an appliance company.
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I always loved when James Stewart did roles that were not so dialogue-based, like 'Vertigo.'
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I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I'm a board member of Oceana, the world's largest international organization dedicated to ocean conservation.
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You obviously don't really forget how to play the old songs; you just don't have to spend so much time convincing yourself that you remember them. Way less mental energy is spent swimming around in lyrics you've already written and chords you've already played.
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And after all this time that you still owe, you're still a good-for nothing I don't know.
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I think I'm very in touch with nature because I grew up in that surrounding. That's a big part of who I am; I don't know anything different.
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In politics, it's more fun to win than it is to lose.
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I'm still swimming.
