Daley Thompson Quotes
In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletics is probably what I was built for.
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You must consider, when reading this treatise, that mental perception, because connected with matter, is subject to conditions similar to those to which physical perception is subject.
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Don't trust anyone over 30.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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You have to actually be weighted to something to do the moonwalk, you know.
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It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
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I have an emotional attachment with Katihar.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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Why not premiere movies on Netflix the same day they're opening in theaters? Listen to the consumer; give the consumer what they want.
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I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go.
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We were all so different, temperamentally from one another, it's impossible to believe that we were together for so long. The cast and crew. How could we be more different from one another? It's difficult to imagine. But something lovely came of it.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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The problem with the Iranian regime, of course is, one, its unsettling effects on the Sunnis, particularly Saudi Arabia, and, secondly, its potential threat to Israel.
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Hardly nobody gets to live two genders in their life.
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'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices.
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'…Just you bloody hypocrites with your four wives and your ten thousand houris in heaven?…'
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On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.
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But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.
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I believe that we can heal Rwanda - and our world - by healing one heart at a time.
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Kids always need a role model. I let them know you can do it, too, if you really want to.
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In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletics is probably what I was built for.
