Daley Thompson Quotes
I was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992. I spent six to eight hours a day training, for 18 years, and it took a long time to get over the regret that I wasn't competing in major championships any more. All I ever wanted to be was the best. But I find new projects and I keep things in perspective.Daley Thompson
Quotes to Explore
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
A. S. Byatt -
Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
Dan Gilbert -
When you've done a show that's as successful as 'Lovejoy' was, it hangs around for a few years, and people know you from it. I escaped the shadow when I stopped 'Lovejoy' by not doing any television for four years.
Ian McShane -
The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
Karl Philipp Moritz -
You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.
Garrett Hedlund -
I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
Pablo Casals
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I don't know how people recognize me.
Laura Prepon -
I had to get some things right in my personal life. And once I got my family on the same page, to understand who I am and what I do for a living, I asked my oldest daughter, 'What do you think about Daddy coming back?' And she said, 'I didn't think you were done. I want you to win the Super Bowl.'
Randy Moss -
I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.
Fareed Zakaria -
My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
Jack Black -
When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
Naomi Campbell -
I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
Adam Lambert
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There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.
Tavi Gevinson -
Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees -
As I've gotten older, I've had to change my food intake.
Kaley Cuoco -
My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.
Yayoi Kusama -
Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'
Kara Swisher -
Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.
Paris Hilton
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My schools were quite diverse - those who serve their country come from every race and religion - and so the military schools I attended were a wonderful melting pot.
Marcia Gay Harden -
Many people and companies only have one goal: money, money, and more money. Greed is ok when you let others profit from it, but greed for oneself is bad, it makes you ill.
Dalai Lama -
Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
Larry Flynt -
I would be writing an essay that was due in the next day until about 1 A.M., and then I would be up at 6 A.M. and on a train to Birmingham to record 'The Archers'. It was pretty intense.
Felicity Jones -
In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation.
Barbara Olson -
I was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992. I spent six to eight hours a day training, for 18 years, and it took a long time to get over the regret that I wasn't competing in major championships any more. All I ever wanted to be was the best. But I find new projects and I keep things in perspective.
Daley Thompson