Michael Phelps Quotes

Even in high school, I'd tell my mom I was sick of swimming and wanted to try to play golf. She wasn't too happy. She'd say, 'Think about this.' And I'd always end up getting back in the pool.

Michael Phelps

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SchoolHappyMomSwimmingSickEnd

I don't come down on any simple place as a deletionist or a completionist.

Jimmy Wales

SimpleDownPlaceComeAny

We can make science personal, like a love story or your best friend.

Jim Sullivan

LoveFriendScienceBestBest Friend

I have no issue with being a character actor. If you've been around enough that people are able to segregate you into that category, it means you're working. So that's good!

John C. McGinley

GoodCharacterPeopleEnoughYou

I come from a family of all women and one boy, my brother. We're all women and we're all precocious and opinionated and like to have fun and we always had friends in the house and we were always, like, half-naked.

Jemima Kirke

FamilyWomenFunBrotherHave Fun

I grew up watching the Lakers.

John Cho

WatchingUpLakersGrew

I don't go off and sit down and try to write material, because then it's contrived and forced. I just live my life, and I see things in a word or a situation or a concept, and it will create a joke for me.

Steven Wright

LifeLiveMeMy LifeDownCreate

Life is like a sewer: what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.

Tom Lehrer

LifeYouOutGetLikeDepends

I'm sure it's one of the most frustrating aspects of human experience for all of us, that when we tell someone who's hurt us that they've hurt us, they tend to react with anger because they feel guilty, and we know we also get angry when we feel guilty.

Joshua Oppenheimer

ExperienceAngerAngryHurtSomeone

The truth of the matter is that chess is not the game of life because life does not ever happen the way you strategize and plan.

Jason Reynolds

LifeTruthGamePlanYouChess

I didn't know what I was in for when I joined 'The X Factor' - I underestimated it.

Cheryl Cole

KnowUnderestimatedX FactorFactor

Of course 'we humans' have a funny relationship with the beings with whom we share our planet. We eat them, we care for them, we admire them, we use them.

April Gornik

FunnyRelationshipCareAdmireEat

Give energy, and mental exertion will always have attraction enough.

William Godwin

EnergyEnoughWillAlwaysMental

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