Katarina Witt Quotes
When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.
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I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.
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I don't think I could think of a single thing that's more isolating than being famous.
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I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.
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Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.
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Censure is a limp noodle across the wrist of the president. I think the way we vote on the articles will express the way we feel stronger than any censure vote.
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I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your prejudices into it. And neuroscience is like a lot of disciplines - it has fashions; things change.
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People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.
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I think lots of actors are very nervous and shy. I know lots of them who are, and some who aren't of course.
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If I see someone doing a new sport, I usually like to throw myself into it, and I never look at it and think, 'That's something I can't do.'
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A lot of times people feel a little apprehensive about suggesting to actually meet in person. One of the reasons that can be hard is people think they have to propose something super novel.
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Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.
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Music is really nothing if you think about it - it only becomes something when somebody listens to it. And then it becomes uncontrollable.
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I think our chances are not looking great today but the only way to fail for me is just not to try.
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I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.
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I think that ageism is a cultural illness; it's not a personal illness.
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I think she said I should seek help. Something like that, but it was in much cruder terms. And that I had a fascination with things coming out of people's mouths.
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Artists are political in the sense that they've subtracted themselves from the structure of the marketplace and are contributing something that's not utilitarian. Even though books get sold, and I get advances, I get to look at society and think for a living.
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I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics.
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I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he's really very, very talented along with George Jones, and Merle Haggard, the same old favorites.
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Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.
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But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves.
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I tried to find a solution to the problem that I had, tried to find a way to start playing better.
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Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.
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When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.
