Peter Snell Quotes

As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances.

Peter Snell

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The understatement is the English contribution to comedy.

Jim Davis

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All the punishment in the world will not reform a man, unless he knows that he who inflicts it upon him does it for the sake of reformation, and really and truly loves him, and has his good at heart. Punishment inflicted for gratifying the appetite makes man afraid but debases him.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

Alvin Toffler

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Climate change could produce a lot of misery and waste without necessarily leading to large-scale armed conflict, which depends more on ideology and bad governance than on resource scarcity.

Steven Pinker

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It's hard to convince your agents and managers to do theater, because it's not as financially rewarding and it takes up a lot of time.

Simon Helberg

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Working with real firefighters keeps us really grounded. How can you possibly complain that your trailer is not at the correct temperature when you are working with a man who ran out of a burning building to save someone's life?

Miranda Rae Mayo

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I tend to do golf charity things because it's much safer and you don't get much chance of a broken arm or leg.

Dougray Scott

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There's a lot of journalism about poverty, but sometimes it just helps to see that there's a real person who becomes a real mom, who is working with unsustainable wages that could eventually destroy her.

Debra Granik

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I was born in Queens and spent many years there. After I got married, I moved to Kew Gardens, then moved to Baldwin, Long Island, where I still reside.

Bob Sheppard

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I like making movies.

Antoine Fuqua

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Allowing guys to celebrate and get the fans involved and excited - it makes the game better.

Antonio Brown

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The idea is to die young as late as possible.

Ashley Montagu

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