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Mark Spitz Quotes

It has nothing to do with swimming. That happens to be my sport. I'm trying to see how far I can go.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: February 10, 1950

Topics

Swimming Trying I Can Go Nothing

A crowded ferry ride away from Tanzania's coastal city, Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar is a marvel for the senses. Every sight and smell is provocative, inspiring a sense of the old and new.

Ride City New Sight Smell Old

What we achieved was a nuclear pause, not a nuclear halt.

Pause Nuclear Achieved Halt

I think that's what good writing is all about. You go into a genre to talk about other things. Tolkein created a whole world to talk about the world he lived in.

Good Writing World Think You Go

And that's another piece of advice I'll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor suggest where to go.

Jerry Pournelle

Lunch Advice You Go Point Take

'Nobody goes to jail.' This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company on Wall Street embroiled in obscene criminal scandals that impoverished millions and collectively destroyed hundreds of billions, in fact, trillions of dollars of the world's wealth - and nobody went to jail.

World Financial Wealth Wall Street

Donald Trump, unlikely Mitt Romney, is not awkward about his money. He has absolutely no qualms about saying, 'I'm rich.'

Money Saying Rich Donald Trump He

I have always been an advocate and was, in my last job at M&S, a supporter of the Al Gore dictum that a sustainable business can be a profitable business. We were the first sizeable company in the U.K. to prove that was the case.

Business Job Prove First Company

You're basically competing with the same exact product. Coke and Pepsi are at least in different cans. Lyft and Uber drivers are just swapping out the mustache for the U on the dashboard, depending on which one they're getting the call on.

You Product Mustache Same Out Call

Jason Statham is one of my favorites. I've watched basically every single one of his action movies, and they're all creative.

Creative Action Movies Single Every

Just as we have had great working lives, we have also had good personal lives. For instance, we have made school our number one priority. We have been in school our entire lives with kids our own age. We guess that's pretty regular.

Mary-Kate Olsen

Good Age Great School Personal Own

Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women.

Women Men Equality Stand Earth Need

When I started working on ambient music, my idea was to make music that was more like painting.

Music Painting More Started Working

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