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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Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous.
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People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.
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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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The basic idea for what became 'Epic Mickey' began at the Disney Think Tank.
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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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I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.
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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 throw as hard as I can when I think I have to throw as hard as I can.
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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.
Garry Kasparov
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We had a few non-fiction books at home, but my dad was of the opinion that fiction was a complete and utter waste of time because it wasn't real - so what was the point of reading it?
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Anything with a good story and characters I think would be great.
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Our songs did not transcend being R&B hits. They were R&B hits that white kids were attracted to. And if people bought it, it became rock & roll. That's marketing. Why couldn't it still be R&B? The bass pattern didn't change. The song didn't change. It was still 'Yakety Yak' and 'Searchin'.'
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When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.
