Joel Parkinson Quotes

Losing one grounds you a bit. I learned a lot after losing the title in 2009, learned that I was probably too intense that year, and when I didn't win, I just felt horrible.

Joel Parkinson

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How ironic, to be my last game that I ever played would be against Dan in a Super Bowl. The thing I always was afraid of was playing in a Super Bowl when it was raining. I can't throw a wet ball.

John Elway

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The most obvious thing I do is I don't wear a burqa, and I'm definitely not oppressed. Plus, I'm quite obviously an independent thinker, which means as soon as I walk on stage, I dispel a lot of those stereotypes.

Maysoon Zayid

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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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Being on a TV show is a really good gig for an actor.

Michael Imperioli

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Once you're put out there in the public eye, people feel a certain ownership over you.

Mia Wasikowska

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A meringue is really nothing but a foam. And what is a foam after all, but a big collection of bubbles? And what's a bubble? It's basically a very flimsy little latticework of proteins draped with water. We add sugar to this structure, which strengthens it. But things can, and do, go wrong.

Alton Brown

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It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

Stephen King

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I don't do anything artificial. I don't do Botox or surgery.

Tony Goldwyn

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There's always so much energy from me and my band. Lots of fun and twists in each song.

Jorja Smith

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My tastes are eclectic.

Dinah Shore

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I don't get up in the morning and think my mission is to end Britain. I do get up in the morning and think that my mission is to end poverty.

Douglas Alexander

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Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and emotion as fiction is.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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