Weyes Blood (Natalie Laura Mering) Quotes
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Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal.
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There is a machismo about an American male who is robust, athletic, able to build things, and he takes care of stuff. And it's a point of pride.
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I can't tell you how lucky I feel to be able to collaborate with some of my dream producers.
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It's really exciting to be able to represent the cruiserweights and go to Monday Night Raw. I grew up watching Monday Night Raw, and it's really a big dream of mine to perform on that stage.
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Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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Competing in London would be a dream come true.
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As a kid, you obviously dream of being a professional footballer. I would watch players like Ronaldo of Brazil and pretend to be him in the playground. But I don't think about trying to become one of the best in the world or anything like that. I just play football.
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The dream of empire died when Shanghai surrendered without a fight. Even at the age of 11 or 12, I knew that no amount of patriotic newsreels would put the Union Jack jigsaw together again. From then on, I was slightly suspicious of all British adults.
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The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
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Apart from the intrinsic interest of the complex system of beliefs the Puritans carried with them, their lives give a clue to what it meant at the beginning to be American. And the level of scholarship dealing with them has reached a point where it can address the human condition itself.
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American life is based on a reassurance that we like one another but won't violate one another's privacies. This makes it a land of small talk.
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Although I went to college in the United States - Carleton in Northfield, Minnesota - I returned to the Middle East for a year in 1970-71 to study at the American University of Beirut.
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The general image of a man in an American sitcom is like a complete moron. You'd think the industry was run by a feminist cabal.
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Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.
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I'd rather do theatre and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films.
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It behooves every American to encourage home manufactures, that our oppressors may feel through their pockets the effects of their blind folly.
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To win a gold medal at Olympic Games has long been my dream ever since I started my career as a table tennis player.
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I always had this dream to act: so much so, even as a child, I used to take part in Ram Leelas.
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Republicans in Congress have two choices here: They can act responsibly, and pay America’s bills; or they can act irresponsibly, and put America through another economic crisis. But they will not collect a ransom in exchange for not crashing the American economy.
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I think the difference between finding happiness, or moments of happiness, is how you choose to interpret things. That's a rather shocking responsibility. That we're responsible for our own happiness. It's not those around us.
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I typically shoot underwater with my regular camera in an underwater housing, and then I usually have two big strobes that I use to light. But with whales, you're not going to be able to really light a 45-foot subject. Your strobes are only effective for maybe five or six feet underwater.
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Courage - you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn't want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.
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I think the American Dream is kind of a myth, especially for millennials.
