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When I was younger, I was afraid to be myself.

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• I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines: I was always winning in my region.

  

  Oleg Deripaska
  • Time
  • Good
  • Different

• My father had very little formal education.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Father
  • Education
  • Little

• I think I've slayed my long jump demons.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Long
  • Think
  • Jump

• I'm the worst employer I could wish for because I push myself hard.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Wish
  • Myself
  • Employer

• I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Feeling
  • Film
  • Explore

• Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • People
  • Debt
  • Corrupt

• In question-and-answer sessions after a reading or during an interview, I forget the question if I'm giving too long an answer. And at the end, I can't remember any of the questions. The more anxious I am about remembering, the more likely I am to forget.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Giving

• I'd just like to be in films that I would like to see.

  

  Jack Black
  • Like
  • See
  • Just

• I didn't aim at anything except good music.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Good
  • Music
  • Aim

• I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar.

  

  Kaki King
  • Guitar
  • Listen
  • Too Much

• I've worked nonstop for 31 years. I've counted down myself hundreds of cues for everything in each 90-minute show. I've never really taken an extended break, so I'd like to see what a vacation is really like.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Myself
  • Taken
  • Down

• I began studying ribosomes as a postdoctoral fellow in Peter Moore's laboratory in 1978.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Studying
  • Laboratory
  • Moore

• Ski racing is probably the least guaranteed sport out there. It's really rare when the favorites win.

  

  Ted Ligety
  • Win
  • Racing
  • Rare

• In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?

  

  Manuel Puig
  • People
  • Country
  • History

• The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinking that the only way to repeat that is by only writing when you're high.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• To be honest, after you've crossed the line at the Olympic Games, it is bedlam for the next, about, five or six hours. Media, press conference, dope control - you might get some food if you're lucky. You might see family if you're lucky.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Family
  • Food
  • Control

• It's OK to have a plan, to invest in your future - for your financial security, your love life, your personal fulfillment, and even your happiness. To have personal happiness as a stated goal doesn't detract from it if you get there.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Life
  • Future
  • Happiness

• When I was a teenager, a psychic told me, 'Your biggest challenge will be life-work balance.' That's certainly turned out to be true!

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Life
  • Work
  • True

• 'I'm tired of being what everyone else has made me,' I said. 'I want to be myself.''Don’t be a child.'I looked up, startled and angry, though of course there was nothing to see. 'What?''You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. Accept that and be done; I’m tired of your whining.'

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Up
  • Done
  • Universe

• There must be a seed of every good thing in the character of men, otherwise no one can bring it out. Lacking that, analogous motives, honor, etc., are substituted. Parents are in the habit of looking out for the inclinations, for the talents and dexterity, perhaps for the disposition of their children, and not at all for their heart or character.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Good
  • Men
  • Children

• Nor must we forget that in science there are no final truths.

  

  Claude Levi-Strauss
  • Science
  • Truths

• When I was younger, I was afraid to be myself.

  

  Lee DeWyze