Poliana Okimoto Quotes

I think marathon swimming makes you work more on your upper body, your abdomen, trapezius, and your arms. When you finish a race, your arms and abdomen are more tired than your legs. Your legs are tired because you've just sprinted for the line, but at the end of the race, when you start to relax, it's your arms that hurt.

Poliana Okimoto

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I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.

Maya Angelou

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When Charles Dickens arrived in Boston Harbor, where he started, they had to keep it secret because there was such a mob of people expecting him, and they actually chased down his carriage at the hotel, the Parker House Hotel.

Matthew Pearl

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The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.

Michael J. Fox

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I realized early on that I always hated girls who used their femininity to get what they wanted.

Amy Locane

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You need a strong sense of 'otherness' to be able to create in your life.

Amos Lee

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Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Steve Jobs

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I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Tom Stoppard

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Razor clams are large, oblong clams, although not as big as geoducks.

Tom Douglas

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I think that 'Fox & Friends' audience is going to increase. That franchise in the morning is very important to any television operation because they make money.

Roger Ailes

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You write about what you know, and you write about what you want to know.

Joyce Maynard

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The only thing that can stop me from being me is me.

Jason Pierre-Paul

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I'm not looking to stick my nose into an area where I'm not needed.

Diane Nelson

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