Patrick Chan Quotes

If you look at all the sports in China, the government is extremely involved and they are extremely proud of their athlete.

Patrick Chan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: December 31, 1990

Topics

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The thing that I've always believed is that you have to follow your passion, and if climbing is your calling in life and your craft, to not do it is a tragedy. I am always going to encourage my children to follow their passions and dreams, whatever they are.

Jimmy Chin

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Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.

Johan Huizinga

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In a sense, fictional dystopias have been a way of distracting us from the truth of our condition by placing it 'over there.'

Jeff Vandermeer

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There's nothing good that comes out of war. It's simply hell on earth, and people survive, and people don't.

Michael Cimino

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'Lose My Cool' is the second track on my EP dedicated to a stage in the grieving process. This track represents anger. I really bottled a lot up after my mother passed, and one day, I couldn't handle it anymore and just exploded on all of my friends and family. It was a very passive way of dealing with things, not very healthy.

Amber Mark

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The atomic weapons race and the secrecy surrounding it crushed American democracy. It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality.

Stewart Udall

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When you tell people you're in history, they give you this pained expression because that was the course they hated in high school. But history can be exciting, intellectually rigorous, and fun.

Robert Darnton

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In my view, until the U.S. tax policy is revised, not just tax extenders but the reform of tax policy, it makes it very attractive for us to invest on acquisition overseas.

Louis R. Chenevert

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I'm quite a rational person, but I'm drawn to the irrational. I love coincidences, and I like to question that in fiction: 'Is this random, or is there something working underneath?'

Lisa Tuttle

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An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.

Jose Marti

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LeBron James has always been the biggest one - I just love to watch him. I'm a big fan, and he's a big inspiration of mine.

Christian Pulisic

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What I know most is that the difference between us is what makes us interesting and attractive and problematic and exciting and vital to each other. Give me difference over indifference any day.

Ali Smith

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