Lynn Davies Quotes
We have to harness the Olympic experience and this inspiration young people have to get into sport.
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Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.
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If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.
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Peer pressure is something everyone will face in school. You have to really go by what you think is the right thing to do. Turn to the friends you trust the most when you are put in a compromising situation. If your friends are making the wrong decision, then turn to your parents.
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When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.
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I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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Our universities also have a lot of foreign students. Are we going to ban them access because in their culture there's a certain type of clothing?
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I just lip gloss! It doesn't matter if it's $2 or $30.
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One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.
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What we did ten years ago with the Playstation was a phenomenal success story for the company. That product had a ten year life cycle, which has never been done in this industry.
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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
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Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.
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But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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Nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
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That's why I talk about the breast cancer: because I want women - and everyone - to stay on top of things and get checked. I know how scary it can be. When I dealt with it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I have so many other friends who have gone through it or have suffered a loss.
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When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.
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What we should celebrate more than diversity is what we do with it. How do we bring everyone in the tent and create something together? In a twenty-first century way that activates our true potential, we all need to become sworn-again.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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The idea that our mental life is affected by hidden causes is a mainstay of psychology.
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This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
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We have to harness the Olympic experience and this inspiration young people have to get into sport.
