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Katie Ledecky Quotes

I'm just maintaining the same mindset that I had going into the 2012 Olympics and Olympic trials, which is just, whatever happens, happens.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: March 17, 1997

Topics

Mindset Trials Same Whatever Going

Poetry was my dirty little secret when I was a fiction writer at Iowa, and then fiction became my dirty little secret when I started writing more poetry and working for 'Rookie'.

Poetry Writing Dirty More Secret

Like measles, the reading bug is best caught when you are young.

Best Reading You Young Caught Bug

'Still Writing Songs About You' - that one hits me every time. For some reason, I really feel that song every time we play it. I just love the sound of it, and I feel like everybody probably has that person that they never fully forget or never can get past.

Love Time Past Me Writing Song

I like to go out if there's a party or go to the movies, but I just like hanging out with my buddies and having a good time.

Jean-Luc Bilodeau

Good Time Having A Good Time Party

If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech - which then leads to Facebook postings demanding that Ann Coulter be hurt, a massive riot and a police-ordered cancellation of the speech - is not hate speech, then there is no such thing as hate speech.

Hate Hurt Speech She University

My mother was a Tibetan Buddhist.

Mother Buddhist Tibetan

People in life take on certain stories and say, 'I'm going to be defined by this story and I'm going to live up to every inch of this story.' Sometimes you realize the story isn't fulfilling you and in fact you're not living the life that you're given.

Life Live People Story You Living

For most part, the rule of thumb is pretty much you're going to race guys hard the last quarter of the race and for sure the last run of the day. You're still going to give and take until that last pit stop.

Day You Stop Run Race Hard

My father was a Party member and he was a pretty high rank military officer under the colonel, junior colonel, I don't know the term. He was a total Stalinist. A bit with a streak of anti-Semitism and very shrewd man, a very kind of nervous man.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Father Man Party Know Nervous Kind

The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich.

Business Simple Government War Rich

To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.

Loved Achieve Fortunate Hated

My junior high school teacher, Bennie Williams, was really more than a music teacher. She taught us poetry. She helped us put on school shows. She did all these kinds of things to help us stand in each other's shoes, and it was a really powerful time. That's when I discovered that I could sing.

Music Teacher Time Shoes Poetry

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