Dara Torres Quotes
I've wanted to win at everything, every day, since I was a kid. And time doesn't change a person, it just helps you get a handle on who you are. Even at age 41, I still hate losing--I'm just more gracious about it. I'm also aware that setbacks have an upside; they fuel new dreams.
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If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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I have no animus toward digital, though I still pretty much take everything on a silver-based negative, either a wet plate or just regular silver 8x10. But I've started messing a little bit with scanning the negative and then reworking it just slightly.
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Emilia Clarke has beautiful brunette hair.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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I wanted this, I wanted to do this, but my work is me, and it has to be right.
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I have been doing marriage counseling for about 15 years and I realized that what makes one person feel loved, doesn't make another person feel loved.
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The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.
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Here in America, just as we see such incredible progress happening in one state, we see another state passing absolutely disgusting and oppressive laws against the rights of all sorts of people - transgender people, gay people, women.
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In the human lung, there are millions of air foils, just like aeroplane wings, which facilitate normal breathing.
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My swing is no uglier than Arnold Palmer's, and it's the same ugly swing every time.
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I've come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.
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No writing has any real value which is not the expression of genuine thought and feeling. (20 December 1939)
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I like to be treated as a lady.
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The most important principle of environment is that you are not the only element.
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I thought I would be a teacher; I think my eventual goal was to be the principal of my old high school.
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In the 'Dreamblood' books, I'm focusing more on what I like about epic fantasy: the layering and depth of tension; the chance to really delve into the minutia of an alternate society and its politics; a large cast of characters to love and hate.
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Doing difficult things like passing marriage equality, passing the Dream Act, doing common sense things that allow new American immigrants to fully participate, pay their taxes, play by the rules and take care of their families. That's the inclusive America that I believe all of us want to move to.
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I've wanted to win at everything, every day, since I was a kid. And time doesn't change a person, it just helps you get a handle on who you are. Even at age 41, I still hate losing--I'm just more gracious about it. I'm also aware that setbacks have an upside; they fuel new dreams.
