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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Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.
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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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Coming from a sort of very rigid European type of training to this culture which is just a little more open - a lot more open, and kind of curious, and asking different sorts of questions.Because the problem for me was that the European modernist movement in the '70s was all about right or wrong. Some things were right and you were dealing with the truth, as it were, and then some things were wrong and therefore not allowed.
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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.
