Ian Thorpe Quotes
I'm more comfortable knowing that, chances are, I'm going to fail at this. I've become comfortable with that.
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.
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Unless technology itself is drastically repressed, the idea of the dystopian monoculture like Orwell's 1984 gets harder to believe. But the danger of a solipsistic society will grow, of a disconnected society of mirror-watchers and navel-gazers.
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The U.S. economy and workers benefit from a strong, healthy relationship between government and business.
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A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.
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Ben Roethlisberger is a proven winner in athletic competition. But the measure of a true leader is how they conduct themselves 24/7, not just during a winning touchdown drive or a goal-line stance. Leadership isn't something that gets switched off because the game clock expires.
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Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.
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The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
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The best way to preserve your privacy is to use a search engine that does not keep your logs in the first place. That's the approach used by Startpage and its European parent company, Ixquick.
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A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.
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I am an Indian to the core.
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A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.
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Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.
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We can help show data on how much the kids can improve when their home life changes a little bit.
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You kind of forget he's Peter Jackson in a way because he's so normal; he's lovely. It's like having a friend direct you, except it's Peter Jackson.
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I think just being on 'One Tree Hill' has given me a lot of confidence.
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I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money.
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If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.
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Writing a play, you have to retain it all in your head - you need more time. With prose, you can snatch an hour here, an hour there.
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There's certain things as a songwriter that I don't really care to write about, and there are certain things I won't sing about anymore. There are just so many things that I probably thought was OK for me, or have been in the past, that I would never want my son to think was OK.
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The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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Better risk loss of truth than chance of error--that is your faith-vetoer's exact position. He is actively playing his stake as much as the believer is; he is backing the field against the religious hypothesis, just as the believer is backing the religious hypothesis against the field.
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I'm more comfortable knowing that, chances are, I'm going to fail at this. I've become comfortable with that.
