Daley Thompson Quotes
Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon requires a wide range of skills.
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What is history but a fable agreed upon?
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Olivia Newton-John was our first choice to play Sandy, but she was nervous about acting, whether she would feel comfortable with us and could pull it off at all.
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Jose Mourinho is a big star... he's cool.
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Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.
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What we did ten years ago with the Playstation was a phenomenal success story for the company. That product had a ten year life cycle, which has never been done in this industry.
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I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.
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Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.
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I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.
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My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
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I developed my taste for coffee at five, staying with my grandmother in Connecticut.
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Mark Twain created a new type of literature and not a lot of people can say that. Not a lot of people can say they're absolutely original and completely self-made.
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There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.
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What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.
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Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.
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Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
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If there is one thing that the women and men of the late 20th century who have an awareness and enjoyment of history can be sure of, it is that Islam was not sent from Heaven to foster egotism and mediocrity.
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We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.
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I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity.
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I'm actually really obsessed with Bruce Springsteen.
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The whole idea of god is absurd. If anything, '2001' shows that what some people call 'god' is simply an acceptable term for their ignorance. What they don't understand, they call 'god' -Stanley Kubrick, interview, 1963
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Once you know what women are like, men get kind of boring. I'm not trying to put them down, I mean I like them sometimes as people, but sexually they're dull.
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Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon requires a wide range of skills.
