Laure Manaudou Quotes
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And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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I've never been a partier.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.
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I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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I wasn't the most prodigiously talented cricketer in Karnataka, let alone India. Some of my team-mates in my school team could hit the ball cleaner than I do. I had to work through that lack of talent, so to speak, that lack of natural flair. Runs never came easy for me.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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You know how you put peanut butter on a piece of bread and the bread falls - it never falls on the bread side down, it always falls peanut butter side down. That's because of gravity.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Health care should be affordable for everyone.
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We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.
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The way my family always did Christmas was on Christmas Eve, it wasn't really centered around a dinner on Christmas Eve. It was more about keeping the kids calm. Sometime after dark is when we were going to open all the presents underneath the tree from Mom, Dad and the kids and everything - just the family presents was every Christmas Eve.
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When I'm applying for a new passport or something, someone will call me Christopher. Other than that, no one ever calls me Christopher.
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Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.
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Golf course design is exciting.
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Between Italy and France, I have chosen Luca Marin, the love of my life.
