Mark de Jonge Quotes

Yes, I could win the Olympics. I hope to, and that's what I'm training for. But it's really going to come down to me racing on that day... Just being really calm and mature about what the reality is - that's my strategy.

Mark de Jonge

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: February 15, 1984

Topics

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I like to keep a book underneath the pillow that I'm not sleeping on so I can reach over and grab it when I wake up. I don't always do that, but I like to. I try to make sure it's a book and not my laptop. I also try not to get too excited about who might've been trying to contact me while I was asleep.

Jenny Zhang

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I did sketch comedy, but I never did improv. So I've just tried to learn as I go.

John Oliver

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I absolutely loved my time at 'Brothers & Sisters,' what I learned and everything that went with it. It was an incredibly formative time for me.

Matthew Rhys

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I play fantasy basketball and fantasy football, soccer.

Andy Murray

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A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.

Robin Tunney

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I have an African gray parrot; her name is Eli. We thought she was a boy. And a blue-streaked lory named Marco. He's 10. And a yellow and green parakeet, Petey. He's very cute, but he's getting old.

Roz Chast

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I can remember my sister and me volunteering for Nixon. My parents liked him. I liked my parents. So I figured he was good.

Douglas McGrath

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Martha Washington. I think she's done herself a disservice in history with a little cap, you know? She looks like a namby-pamby little grandmotherly type, but she turned out to be a very strong woman.

Cokie Roberts

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There is an interesting interplay between power corrupting and corruption empowering. The causality does not go one way.

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

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I like to show ordinary people reacting to extraordinary circumstances. It's an opportunity for adventure, and I like women to have adventures. There's been far too little of it with women.

Susan Isaacs

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I'm always happy when I'm cleaning, and besides, I had just found out that I was going to have a baby.

Peggy Lee

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When we launch a product, we're already working on the next one. And possibly even the next, next one.

Tim Cook

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