Laure Manaudou Quotes
In Athens I was 17 and I didn't have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing everybody. I didn't have the joy after my races in 2007. I didn't want to go to Beijing. I had to for sponsors.

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I have had it up to here with the prosecutions, the government's attitude, the judiciary, the media's stance and the majority of Turks who view the Kurdish people's justified cause through a nationalist lens.
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
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Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.
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You can oppose reparations all you want, but you got to know the facts. You really, really do.
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I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
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I've always watched the political shows.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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Our nation is today a powerful nation.
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You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
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My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.
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The fact that anyone would find me sexy is very, very flattering, but ridiculous. I so don't believe it. But I'm flattered. Truth is, I don't lift a finger to look sexy. Ever.
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The only routine with me is no routine at all.
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Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.
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The Cistercians do not eat meat... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs, and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows.
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We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.
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It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to dress up in other people's costumes and pretending to be people that they're not, and you think, after the years go by, well, what on earth was all that about?
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What's risky is living your life and never trying for anything and never doing something brave and never getting yourself scared.
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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In Athens I was 17 and I didn't have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing everybody. I didn't have the joy after my races in 2007. I didn't want to go to Beijing. I had to for sponsors.