Kathrine Switzer Quotes
When I was first running marathons, we were sailing on a flat earth. We were afraid we'd get big legs, grow mustaches, not get boyfriends, not be able to have babies. Women thought that something would happen to them, that they'd break down or turn into men, something shadowy, when they were only limited by their own society's sense of limitations.Kathrine Switzer
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
Harold MacMillan -
I wanna create a character that's really memorable... like Julia Roberts did in 'Pretty Woman.'
Kari Wuhrer -
I miss baseball.
Dale Murphy -
I am going to put money into education at the expense of other programs.
Dalton McGuinty -
There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.
H. L. Mencken -
Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.
Yehuda Berg
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I was a horrible athlete.
Daniel Espinosa -
I sort of fall apart in terms of stamina after about 25 minutes!
Gary Lineker -
If I fell into one relationship after another with men who were either emotionally tuned out and unavailable or hotheaded and controlling, or both, it was because I was lacking in good sense about men.
Kate Christensen -
Once you achieve a level of success... you learn, something tells you, 'Man this ain't even for you.' You got to share with the people. You got to inspire the people.
Fat Joe -
Only criminals and bloodsuckers reward bad behavior.
Ted Nugent -
Women have not yet realized the cowardice that resides, for if they should decide to do so, they would be able to fight you until death; and to prove that I speak the truth, amongst so many women, I will be the first to act, setting an example for them to follow.
Veronica Franco
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The stars that have most glory have no rest.
Samuel Daniel -
There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan.
Malcolm Turnbull -
When I'm in management meetings when we're deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I'm the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That's the part of my life where I feel most in control.
Taylor Swift -
The food we eat masks so much cruelty. The fact that we can sit down and eat a piece of chicken without thinking about the horrendous conditions under which chickens are industrially bred in this country is a sign of the dangers of capitalism, how capitalism has colonized our minds. The fact that we look no further than the commodity itself, the fact that we refuse to understand the relationships that underly the commodities that we use on a daily basis. And so food is like that.
Angela Davis -
I don't differentiate much, except in degree, between people who believe in religion from those who believe in astrology, magic or the supernatural.
Andy Rooney -
Dreams are like stars. You may never touch them, but if you follow them they will lead you to your destiny…
Liam James
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I think that there's a proliferation of music that is done entirely in the bedroom for an Internet audience, but there's no way in hell that you could actually kill off a live show, and its importance in the creation of music - it's just impossible.
Zach Condon -
The record of the race, hitherto accepted as the truth about ourselves, has been the story of facts and conditions as the male saw them – or wished to see them. . . . No secret has been so well-kept as the secret of what women have thought about life.
Elizabeth Bisland -
I don't think about fights that didn't happen.
Fedor Emelianenko -
Do stupid stuff and even stupider suff will happen to you.
Dan Gutman -
When I was first running marathons, we were sailing on a flat earth. We were afraid we'd get big legs, grow mustaches, not get boyfriends, not be able to have babies. Women thought that something would happen to them, that they'd break down or turn into men, something shadowy, when they were only limited by their own society's sense of limitations.
Kathrine Switzer