Ian Thorpe Quotes
Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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I think that a leader is someone that needs to make an impact on, off the cricket field and in their lives as well.
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Vox populi vox dei: the voice of the people is the voice of God. The slogan was useful for those who first attempted to substitute the people for God as the source of political authority. Their attempt was ultimately so successful that God no longer seems to be needed in government.
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I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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I'm looking for people who are at the cutting edge of what they do, who think out-of-the-box. Even if their work is something common today, it might have been absolutely new when they started out, so we'd like to hear of their beginnings.
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It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.
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I am capable of much more. I guess every artist feels that way. If you are satisfied, you begin to stagnate. I want to grow as an actress every day. There are so many things you can learn, and you can improve upon your skills and abilities every day.
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I'm a military guy. I'm not a political character.
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I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.
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I have a very short attention span.
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I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.
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I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
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Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.
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I am also hugely excited to then be competing to defend my three Paralympic titles at the Paralympic Games. I believe we will see some amazing times posted and I am very much looking forward to what will be an incredible Olympics and Paralympics in London.
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Um... Bulgaria is an interesting country. The people are lovely. There are potholes the size of small planets.
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I was a weird but definite kid, and there were essentially no gender roles for me to fit into.
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As a conservative, I maintain a healthy skepticism of the theory of man-made global warming. I also believe that more people enjoying the fruits of modernity and economic development is a good thing - as long as those people arrived legally and obey the law.
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I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I'd love to be incredibly wealthy for no reason at all.
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By the time I joined the 'Washington Post' sports staff in 1979, Red's Runyonesque notion of sports writing was obsolete.
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Communication always changes society, and society was always organized around communication channels. Two hundred years ago it was mostly rivers. It was sea-lanes and mountain passes. The Internet is another form of communication and commerce. And society organizes around the channels.
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You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.
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'The Art of the Brick' is an exhibition I've done where I've taken some works of art from art history and replicated them all out of Lego bricks.
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Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.
