Alistair Brownlee Quotes

I did a term at Cambridge University studying medicine, so I could potentially have followed in Mum and Dad's footsteps and become a doctor.

Alistair Brownlee

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: April 23, 1988

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My optimism for life carried through my work.

John Dyer

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As a 7-year-old child, I saw the Wall being erected. No one - although it was a stark violation of international law - believed at the time that one ought to intervene militarily in order to protect citizens of the GDR and whole Eastern bloc, of the consequences of that - namely, to live in lack of freedom for many, many years.

Angela Merkel

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It requires some intelligent reframing to make people see commonalities that they don't otherwise see. To me, the Tea Party and the Occupy movement are, in many ways, saying the same thing, but it requires a bit of imagination to get people to see that.

Anand Giridharadas

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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

Socrates

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Those who reject integration programs in the long term have as little right to stay in Germany as a hate preacher paid from abroad in a mosque.

Sigmar Gabriel

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You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also think it's irresponsible to simply be a nihilist, which quite a lot of playwrights, especially playwrights younger than me, have become guilty of.

Tony Kushner

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Even when the writing seems very frivolous, I'm puritanical. I don't mean my subject matter. It's that I'm almost pathologically incapable of leaving something when I'm not quite happy with it.

Tom Stoppard

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In relative youth, we assume we'll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.

Dick Cavett

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I think one thing that does cause unhappiness is protracted anxiety and worry.

Derek Bok

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Simple words of encouragement subsequently saved many of the Indianapolis' sailors during their ordeal in the summer of 1945, and those men took the lesson to heart.

Doug Stanton

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There is no well-trodden route to where I am, no formula to replicate.

Chris Sacca

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In 26 years of delivering babies, I've always been interested in government and the state of the union.

Phil Gingrey

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