Swimming Quotes
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I was swimming for the United States of America. I was swimming to beat Stephen Holland.
Bobby Hackett
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The swimming community is really conservative. I don't know why, because we're in no clothing whatsoever.
Amanda Beard
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In 'Swimming Pool,' all the colors are very warm, sunny, the pool and all that. In 'Love Crime,' everything is so cold, and it's all inside skyscrapers.
Ludivine Sagnier
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I just came in this morning with one goal; to make it back tonight, so I'm very excited for the final.
Michelle Williams
Destiny's Child
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Many people cycle or swim to keep trim. But if swimming is so good for the figure, how do you explain whales?
Charles Saatchi
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Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It feels like I'm in a swimming pool, and I am constantly trying to stay above water. Sometimes I feel like I'm slipping, and you try to come up for air, and that's how it is when looking for the next role.
Kym Whitley
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I walked away from the sport for 17 years, then started swimming again recently in a master's program.
Mark Spitz
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One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.
Maya Angelou
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I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
Al Pacino
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All I do is track a profane route to something (I hope) profound. Like swimming a river of shit for a kiss.
Chuck Palahniuk
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My first event was in Nottingham, aged 11, and the prize was a bike. I thought, 'Wow.' I had no idea what to wear. I think I did it in swimming trunks, then just put on a T-shirt and shoes for the bike part. Triathlons felt exotic. There was a technical and tactical aspect to it as well as the endurance challenge. I was hooked.
Alistair Brownlee
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I've a rare Turkish swimming cat.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
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I rented a house in Favignana, off the coast of Sicily, in the mid or late '90s. There was a revolving door of visiting friends and family - we played games, painted our faces, went swimming naked, cooked big meals, rode around on motorini, and had great cappuccinos.
Amber Valletta
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What on earth has this synchronized swimming got to do with anything, let alone sport?
Frank Keating
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Los Angeles and Sydney are very similar, but I definitely enjoy more fresh seafood when I'm back in Australia, as there is so much great, fresh produce here. I also like going swimming at the beach while I'm home, too.
Phoebe Tonkin
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Swimming has been a very effective medium for telling a story about the state of our planet.
Lewis Gordon Pugh
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I wasn't a happy kid. I felt like my mum ruined our chance of a better life, because when she remarried, we went to live in Bahrain, on a compound with a swimming pool, and she ruined it all.
James Arthur
