Alistair Brownlee Quotes
I did a term at Cambridge University studying medicine, so I could potentially have followed in Mum and Dad's footsteps and become a doctor.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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The Internet has turned the world into one gigantic linked community, capable of instantly sharing vast amounts of incorrect information.
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I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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I was a gymnast when I was little, like 8, 9, 10.
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I had to get some things right in my personal life. And once I got my family on the same page, to understand who I am and what I do for a living, I asked my oldest daughter, 'What do you think about Daddy coming back?' And she said, 'I didn't think you were done. I want you to win the Super Bowl.'
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If I go into the place in myself that is love, and you go into the place in yourself that is love, we are together in love. Then you and I are truly in love, the state of being love. That's the entrance to Oneness. That's the space I entered when I met my guru.
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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When mom and dad were at the height of their careers, and things were super-crazy, and they couldn't leave their houses, there wasn't social media. It was all about autographs. Now, everyone's the press. I feel fame is perforated: it can be glorious, but it can completely destroy a human, too.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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Food Stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.
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As an actor, I come to set, and I have already broken the character down by writing a poem about the character. I try to write in his voice, the way he would write it.
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I talk to student-athletes. I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes. You need to get an education, keep your hands clean and try to represent the university.
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Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling.
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What humanity needs today is not merely philosophy or theology, but a message or reassurance.
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I'll tell you, my dad played and sang, and it didn't take me long to figure out that playing a guitar was a whole lot better than getting ahold of a hoe handle or chopping cotton, man.
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A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie.
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My mom is Asian and loves all of the throwaway parts of the animal, so she actually thanks me for saving her the neck and other parts.
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I didn't like the '60s because it was too important what people who had nothing to do with the war thought about it.
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Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days.
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I did a term at Cambridge University studying medicine, so I could potentially have followed in Mum and Dad's footsteps and become a doctor.
