Ted Ligety Quotes

Sochi will be my third Olympics, and I'm coming into these games in a stronger position than I've been in years past.

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• There are days where you do everything right and nothing goes in your favour.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • You
  • Nothing
  • Where

• For me, the greatest fault would be to tell somebody something I'm not.

  

  Manti Te'o
  • Me
  • Greatest
  • Tell

• I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Time
  • School
  • Father

• Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Man
  • Marriage
  • Woman

• I was a tomboy.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Tomboy

• The truth is, 'Charlie Hebdo' is not a racist magazine. Rather, it is a campaigning anti-racist left-wing magazine.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Truth
  • Truth Is
  • Leftwing

• What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Rule
  • Student
  • Diary

• I personally see myself as a musician in the first place. You know, I don't want to say I will be a producer and DJ for the rest of my life. I can totally see myself being in another band in five years, if that's what my heart and soul wants to do, if that's what will make me happy. I'm totally happy to just not DJ anymore.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Happy

• Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Future
  • Religion
  • Philosophy

• This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • May
  • Like
  • Beauty

• Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • History
  • Mistake
  • United

• Enforcement is the long overdue step to protect our Nation from external threats in a time of war. And then once we do that, we can effectively discuss a guest worker program.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • Time
  • Long
  • War

• I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Movie
  • Star
  • Try

• I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • People
  • Love
  • Faith

• My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Mother
  • Parents
  • Name

• I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Political
  • Problem
  • Understanding

• Venezuela, given its extraordinary educational, cultural, and social developments, and its vast energy and natural resources, is called on to become a revolutionary model for the world.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • World
  • Energy
  • Model

• Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Music
  • Love
  • Today

• 'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.

  

  Barbara Cooney
  • Heart
  • Right
  • Ego

• I felt like there were two people inside me. I was trying to be somebody I was not, and I was frustrated that people didn't know who I was.

  

  Kaytranada
  • People
  • Trying

• Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it.

  

  Pierre Bourdieu

• When I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Years
  • Young
  • Maybe

• To regret fully is to appreciate how high the stakes are in even the average human life; fully experienced, it turns our eyes, attentive and alert, to a future possibly lived better than our past.

  

  David Whyte
  • Life
  • High
  • Future

• Sochi will be my third Olympics, and I'm coming into these games in a stronger position than I've been in years past.

  

  Ted Ligety
  • Past
  • Years
  • Stronger