Wright Thompson Quotes
I get very selfish at times. I write about things that are interesting to me. Which are often very different. All of these stories, the thing they have in common is that they were somehow interesting. I feel like they're all dispatches from a worldview.
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To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London. Dundee is a very different place; they have their own rules.
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Ninety percent of hockey is mental and the other half is physical.
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McGregor is a businessman through and through. He's obviously a wrestling fan.
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I do a lot of yoga and meditation. It calms my nerves and helps me channelise my energy.
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I think that that integrity is something that is important to voters.
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The wheelchair and the prosthesis give me a soapbox to stand on. If it helps me get my message across, I'm glad; then we need to talk about what we need to do for this country.
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I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.
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The fact is that our business is fundamentally really strong. We have a platform and a depth that no one in the tech industry has. This means we have competitors at every layer.
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I'm training once a day, four days a week, and just loving life.
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The reason I went for Jenny Craig is I thought, Maybe I'm not the only one who has stupid reasons for getting fat.
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You can usually tell when I'm happy by the fact that I've put on weight.
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Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.
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Music is an escape for me.
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It was in a grim room on Eddy Street that I finally opened 'A Moveable Feast.' I read it all overnight. I read it again the next day.
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I think I need to continue to think and plan and marry all of the different things that we could do that make transportation in space from the earth to the space station, from the earth to the moon to space stations around the moon to visiting an asteroid.
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This acquisition highlights Goldman Sachs' strategy of expanding our electronic market-making capabilities.
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Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
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The funniest thing about comedy is that you never know why people laugh. I know what makes them laugh but trying to get your hands on the why of it is like trying to pick an eel out of a tub of water.
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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Just don't let anything get in the way of what you want to achieve. A lot of people get knocked back by friends, or family, or peer pressure. If you have a talent and want to do something with it, it's down to you. If it's what you really want then go after it and be very selfish... You have to remain committed, you have to stay focused and you have to be selfish.
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I get very selfish at times. I write about things that are interesting to me. Which are often very different. All of these stories, the thing they have in common is that they were somehow interesting. I feel like they're all dispatches from a worldview.
