Daley Thompson Quotes

We crave instant success these days. If you are a really good sprinter and long jumper, you don't want to spend two or three years on a whole new set of events. You're used to doing well and it's difficult to give that up.

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• When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • Life
  • Time
  • Together

• French 'Vogue' was always a photographer's magazine.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Always
  • Photographer
  • Vogue

• You must always do what you feel is right.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • You
  • Always
  • Feel

• I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Real
  • Ideas

• When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Bad
  • Childhood
  • Memories

• One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, since there was a gay secretary, but that wasn't even the issue of the show-the issue was Homer's image changing because he had hair.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Hair
  • Gay
  • Unique

• After seeing 'Big,' I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like Tom Hanks did.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Like
  • Big
  • Seeing

• There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Eye

• I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.

  

  C. J. Box
  • Up
  • World
  • Real

• I love movies, and if the right thing comes along I'm so interested.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Movies
  • Right
  • Thing

• And it just made me realize again because I have know it for some time, that you never get comfortable in this. No matter who you are. No matter who... how successful you are.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Time
  • Successful
  • Comfortable

• In most movies there is a Prince Charming who rides up and saves the girl.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Movies

• The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Life
  • Action
  • Spiritual

• There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Good
  • Better
  • Famous

• When you're looking through a magazine, you'd think every single person's a different person, but every third girl is actually the same girl in a different outfit and makeup.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Different
  • Girl
  • Single

• By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.

  

  Harry A. Blackmun
  • Free
  • Hands
  • Censorship

• Music is like my security blanket.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Music
  • Security
  • Blanket

• You want to be paid in respect to how your peers are paid.

  

  Jake Arrieta
  • Respect

• I think a big part of what has helped me move forward with the sport is my family. We're all so close together, and the support system has been amazing.

  

  Laurie Hernandez
  • Family
  • Together
  • Support

• I wanted to be in film. I wanted to be a film student, possibly be a director or cinematographer, not an actor. That was my goal. I didn't believe I had the physical beauty that I'd seen projected and advertised in movies, in theater. It just wasn't for me.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Believe

• The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.

  

  Alexander Hamilton
  • Power
  • Nature
  • Hand

• I look at fitness as a necessity in the same way as how you drink water, eat food, one should look at fitness in a dedicated way. People will look fresh and happy. If you are happy, you in a way look fit.

  

  Arjun Rampal
  • People
  • Happy
  • Food

• We crave instant success these days. If you are a really good sprinter and long jumper, you don't want to spend two or three years on a whole new set of events. You're used to doing well and it's difficult to give that up.

  

  Daley Thompson
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