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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Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.
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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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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.
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I feel music is another kind of literature.
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The process of unleashing worms on organic waste such as food scraps and grass clippings is known as 'vermicomposting.' Amateur horticulturists and hippies have been doing it on a small scale for decades.
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I'm afraid that the act of writing is so scary and anxiety-filled that I never laugh at all. In fact, when people tell me that such and such a scene or story is comical, I tend to gape. I did not intend comedy - ever, as far as I know. It's probably all a mistake. I am essentially a lugubrious writer. Ha ha!
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We have to harness the Olympic experience and this inspiration young people have to get into sport.
