Summer Sanders Quotes
It really was my brother who got me involved in swimming. I wanted to be just like him and do everything he was doing.
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I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
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I've come to realize I'm more spiritual than I am religious. What I mean by this: As far as praying to God goes, I'm more about looking inside for inner guidance - tapping into our own abundantly powerful inner resources - which, I suppose, is where some might say God does indeed reside.
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I've always, especially through old Hollywood musicals, loved just to watch tap dancing; I adore it. I think it's fantastic.
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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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I think where it's going is toward what the music industry is like, where channels will be considered more like labels that carry the type of TV show that you like, and then you'll consume them however you can. For example, I don't really watch Showtime, but I bought 'Homeland,' and I've been watching every episode on my iPad.
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I'm quite a precious painter; my style is a messy fine art - sort of impressionist. I do portraits, I love painting other artists, but recently, I've been playing around with self portraits, putting on different characters.
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If there's one message I want people to take away is never compromise being your authentic self. Even if that means making others uncomfortable.
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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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I have no pretension that I belong in D.C. I mean, I have to be cautious on how we do our restaurant.
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If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related disease and disability as possible.
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I hope that I can continue to champion Dr. Paul's efforts to audit the Fed, protect state's rights, and getting our nation back on track.
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Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.
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I just feel like the days of a handful of executives making the decisions for the entirety of the human public have gone on long enough.
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I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.
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You have to follow that next step.
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As an individual, not as the boss of a company, I am very interested in motor racing.
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A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
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My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.
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A person's life is over in 50, 100 years. But a company lives on through the people it is composed of, and SoftBank group has to survive even after I'm gone.
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Being a songwriter is really the base of being an artist, for me.
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I've always had this interest in sibling relationships because I don't have any siblings. I'm completely a product of the one-child policy in China, so I always kind of wished that I had an older brother or a younger brother or sister just to have that bond, so I find myself constantly writing about that relationship.
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In the 1960s, if you could save $500, you had enough to move to another city and start a new life.
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I didn't know a soul when I got to New York, and I felt really displaced. The first week I was euphoric, and then I realized how isolating the city can be.
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It really was my brother who got me involved in swimming. I wanted to be just like him and do everything he was doing.
