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Daley Thompson Quotes

Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon requires a wide range of skills.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: english
Birth: July 30, 1958

Topics

You Skills Sometimes Strengths Your

I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was my great good fortune to be popular.

Good Great Trying Never Write Out

When an actor doesn't face a conflict, he loses confidence in himself. I always want to have a struggle because I believe it will help me accomplish more.

Confidence Struggle Me Conflict Face

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.

Father Hope Time Parent House Open

The power of love is a strong thing.

Love Power Love Is Strong Thing

I wouldn't want to change anything about my career.

Change Career Want Anything About

I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.

Believe Literature Important Out

I wanted to do an hour-long show, and I wanted to something that was dramatic and sometimes funny and humorous, as well. I'm just delighted to have this opportunity to be a part of this project.

Funny Opportunity Sometimes Project

Conservatism is not the problem. Conservatism is the founding of this country, essentially. Conservatism isn't even really an ideology. Conservatism is just what is right, proper, decent, and moral. That's all it is.

Problem Country Moral Right Ideology

We don't really go in for big family dinners, but Scottish people are famously confrontational. It's a cultural thing, so maybe we don't need to have them to clear the air. Also, traditional family food isn't as nice here so there's no payoff for traveling hundreds of miles.

Family Food People Go Nice Need

I grew up in New York, and I've always been surrounded by fashion. My grandmother used to write for 'Vogue' in the '50s, and my mother was a dancer and a model.

Mother New York Fashion New Write

You look at, like, a 'People' magazine, which used to be a really good, you know, nice magazine you could go to for real stories. It wasn't like a 'Star' or an 'US Weekly' and they have somebody with plastic surgery on the cover, Heidi Montag. And it's obviously what consumers want, because why else would they be doing it?

Chelsea Handler

Good People Doing You Look Nice

I couldn't go anywhere unless there was a security guard with me. That spoiled my life. It was like being in captivity. Those days are gone, and I don't ever want to see that happen to me again. Now I can wander around the streets of Los Angeles on my own. I like it that way.

Christine McVie

Life Me My Life Wander Security Go

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