Lynn Davies Quotes
To win an Olympic title when there are 205 nations taking part, you have to be super-human. You have to be superman.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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I'm learning slowly to not be as much of a control freak. I can't afford to be all the time, but I'm getting better at communicating. Delegating parts of my vision for other people to execute has made it an easier process for knowing what I want, and what people can handle, and what I should probably save for myself.
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I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?
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An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.
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It's inspiring for me to know that you've got to step up your game.
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I guess John Wayne would be one. I just respected the way he acted.
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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.
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How many people in the world is, each of them is individual. And I like to eat bread, somebody don't like that. You know this is the same in gymnastics.
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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
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Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she's about 5 feet - and very mighty. And she would control her kids a lot by giving them the eye, or the stare.
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Actually, I've always wanted to be a professional skateboarder ever since I was about six.
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And tiny vessels oozed into your neck And formed the bruises That you said you didn't want to fade But they did and so did I that day
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I remain just one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
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The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the musicians who were successful in the '60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid.
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The stardom thing happened and now I'm trying to make a comeback, if you want to call it that.
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I'm an immigrant writer, or an African writer, or an Ethiopian-American writer, and occasionally an American writer according to the whims and needs of my interpreters.
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In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.
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As a boy, my favorite show was 'Superman' and my favorite movie was 'Star Wars' - along with other science fiction shows and movies. And I always wanted to fly.
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Superman told me... that we needed to make a double... type of record... and so I answered: 'Okay, Superman. We will make... a double type of record but it won't be a double album because... Batman... didn't want a double album'
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I'm John the Fourth, so I think there's a lot of things in life that have been truly handed to me by the hard work and the pain of others.
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To win an Olympic title when there are 205 nations taking part, you have to be super-human. You have to be superman.
