Katarina Witt Quotes
I never had a serious injury that kept me out of a big competition. Now everyone has injuries – to their feet or their knees or their backs.
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Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
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When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only thing that unifies Tennessee.
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Nothing is unfilmable.
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It's hard to bring up your children on benefit. It's easier if you can do part- time work, or even full-time work, and actually have a better standard of living, and that's the direction in which we are going.
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
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Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
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I'm lucky that I have my family, I'm lucky that my parents are still together. Those are the things that I cherish.
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I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
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When I was a kid, I didn't know how I got into acting.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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There are no more excuses for leaving women out of the inner circles of power. Qualified women are everywhere. Women are ready for leadership; they just need to be identified and asked.
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I do not believe in censorship, but I believe we already have censorship in what is called marketing theory, namely the only information we get in mainstream media is for profit.
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I suffer from vertigo. It's paralyzing in extreme situations. The most scared I've been as an adult was trying to conquer that fear by going climbing in Wales.
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'Brave New World' dealt with a kind of proto-genetic engineering of the unborn, through really, as many dystopias do, it dealt with totalitarianism. The 1997 film 'Gattaca' updated 'Brave New World,' bringing us to a future where genetic testing determined your job, your wealth, your status in life.
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Detroit, the heart of the country... I grew up on 10 Mile, 2 miles better than 8 Mile.
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There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.
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I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points.
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If you're ruling the world, you can't trust anybody. Because even those who profess to be working in your interest - those are also villains in and of their own right.
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I'm just a very normal person, living in north London, doing my best for my area and to put forward some serious debate on issues in the party.
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I never had a serious injury that kept me out of a big competition. Now everyone has injuries – to their feet or their knees or their backs.
