Elana Meyers Quotes
I know that God is working through me within this sport. I know He's put me here for a purpose and it's not just to win medals. Winning is great and hopefully it gives me a platform to spread His love and spread His Word, but at the end of the day, I'm called to do what He wants me to do.
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I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
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In order to make further progress, particularly in the field of cosmic rays, it will be necessary to apply all our resources and apparatus simultaneously and side-by-side; an effort which has not yet been made, or at least, only to a limited extent.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
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Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.
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My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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Whether we can call 'Hell or High Water' this rogue buddy bank-heist movie, it's also a meditation on assimilation and failure and what happens when someone loses their purpose.
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I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.
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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
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'Whiplash' scared me. I feel you should only do projects that scare you to some degree. I get motivated by those sorts of feelings.
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My first Broadway show wasn't until I was a freshman in high school. It was my first trip to New York. I came with a group of theatre kids, and we saw four shows. The very first one was 'Contact.'
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education.
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Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that's still surviving.
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.
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The body is the one thing you have to say goodbye to. You can hold on to your memories. You can hold on to the spirit. That's part of the package that you love and the part that comforts you.
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Joseph Mattson is a monster of a writer.
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Fasting reduces the power of self so that the Holy Spirit can do a more intense work within us.
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You never know what you find once you really get going.
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I know that God is working through me within this sport. I know He's put me here for a purpose and it's not just to win medals. Winning is great and hopefully it gives me a platform to spread His love and spread His Word, but at the end of the day, I'm called to do what He wants me to do.
