Lorrie Fair Quotes
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Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal.
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For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.
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The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either.
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Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.
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In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.
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There are so many young women coming up through the ranks. Adele is an amazing singer. Beyonce has great stage presence. She's just a beautiful woman. I love how everyone has just taken charge of their lives and careers.
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I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
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I'm a klutz, through and through.
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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
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Shock can kill you. Shock is terrible. But what you've got to do is live in the present, which is what I have always done.
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I will try and make peace between North and South Korea.
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We will not be beaten. But we may be shamed and embarrassed on a needlessly long road to victory.
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Rich people march on Washington every day.
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Serving in the executive branch is very different than sounding off from an academic perch.
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You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.
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Olympics is everyone's dream.
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Some of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you endured From evils which never arrived!
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I'm light and airy.
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You take a sound, any sound, record it and then change it's nature by a multiplicity of operations. You record it at different speeds; you play it backwards; you add it to itself over and over again. You adjust filters, echoes, acoustic qualities…you produce a vast and subtle symphony. It's a sort of modern magic. We think there's something in it. Some musicians believe it may become an art form in its own right.
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It's as simple as something that nobody knows.
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For those of us who have flown before , that was by far the smoothest ascent.
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I'll tell you what's funny about it [NSA wiretapping]: They tell us we got to cut the budget; we have to have budget rollback. We're going to cut the budget on air traffic control, and every once in a while your plane is going to be delayed for three hours. But we do have the money laying around to hire people to read your emails and listen to your phone conversations. That just doesn't make any friggin' sense at all.
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Everywhere you look these days you see Carolina athletes.