Dara Torres Quotes

I really believe in setting goals, no matter what it is: whether it's losing five pounds or making the world championship team.

Dara Torres

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• The mirror to the beautiful is beautiful.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Beautiful
  • Mirror

• Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • War
  • Civil War
  • Universities

• It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Attention
  • Question
  • Television

• For decades, NRDC has created and supported policies that will ultimately end our reliance on fossil fuels.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • End
  • Will
  • Fossil Fuels

• I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Time
  • Funny
  • Rock

• I'm to a point now where you want to play for your fans and all that, but I'm playing for the guys in that huddle. I'm playing for the guys in that locker room.

  

  Tarvaris Jackson
  • Want
  • You
  • Fans

• I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.

  

  Maggie Lawson
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Years

• We solve last year's problems without thinking about the future.

  

  Eddie Obeng
  • Thinking
  • Future
  • Year

• It simply isn't acceptable for the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon and others, which amass data by the terabyte, to say, 'Don't worry, your information's safe with us, as all sorts of rules protect you' - when all evidence suggests otherwise.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Worry
  • Information
  • Rules

• That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Way
  • Path
  • Reach

• I spent a lot of time in boarding school. This is something I will never do to my kids. I think if you're having kids, then you have to take care of them; otherwise, what's the point? There are many things that parents say are good for the kids, but the truth is they say that because it is good for the parents.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Time
  • Good
  • School

• We signed up for Showtime, which I think put us on a Homeland Security list somewhere.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Up
  • Think
  • Security

• I have to say I am a 'Strictly' fan, which is why I am in it. I've always watched it for years. I am not an 'X Factor' fan, and I just think it is a different show. One is about learning something new and having a great time, and the other is rather desperate.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Time
  • Great
  • Different

• I will run against anybody.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Will
  • Run
  • Against

• For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Art
  • Moments
  • Quality

• The strange thing is, no matter what, when you become some kind of public figure, you have your go-to answers for all scenarios and instances.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Kind
  • Matter
  • Strange

• To be silent is to be passive.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Silent
  • Passive

• Take Hispanic voters. They favor Democrats because they like the party's programs, from health care reform to government spending on education. It's not because the Republicans don't have a big enough Office of Hispanic Outreach.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Education
  • Party
  • Health

• I've worked really hard, but I know people who have worked even harder but didn't have the chances I've had.

  

  David Lindsay-Abaire
  • People

• I have sat by night beside a cold lake And touched things smoother than moonlight on still water, But the moon on this cloud sea is not human, And here is no shore, no intimacy, Only the start of space, the road to suns.

  

  F. R. Scott
  • Night
  • Space
  • Water

• We believe that the farm should be building 'forgiveness' into the ecosystem. What does that mean? That a more forgiving ecosystem is one that can better handle drought, flood, disease, pestilence.

  

  Joel Salatin
  • Believe
  • Forgiveness

• Every one should be wealthy, if only for a day, so that each might realize that be being rich is not the ideal condition that most believe it is. And like the land, we should have little need for all that silver when we cease breating. Let us enjoy the smiling faces of as many children of god as we can while we are able to see them.

  

  Og Mandino
  • God
  • Believe
  • Children

• I still believe in Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and true love. Don't even try to tell me different.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Believe
  • True Love
  • Santa

• I really believe in setting goals, no matter what it is: whether it's losing five pounds or making the world championship team.

  

  Dara Torres
  • Believe
  • Team
  • Goal