Daley Thompson Quotes

What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself.

Daley Thompson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PositiveMyselfBestPeopleMeUsed

I came from a middle-class family. My dad was a professor; my mom was a nurse. I didn't come from money, and I didn't come from circles of power. I didn't come from the country club; I came from the town park.

Megyn Kelly

FamilyPowerMoneyMomCountryPark

I'm so proud that my offspring became a musician. I'm full of awe that we are able to have a whole family live the life of artists.

Maxine Hong Kingston

LifeFamilyLiveProudAweArtists

No matter how much it's growing, the Internet still is a pretty specific demographic. It doesn't necessarily represent the general populace.

Andy Samberg

InternetGrowingMatterPrettyStill

I have no friends here apart from the dudes at my record label, and I didn't go to school with no one. Nobody knows me - I'm incognito. It's all new, all fun.

MF Doom

SchoolFunMeFriendsNobodyNew

Life-writing calls for any number of dubious gifts: A touch of O.C.D., a lack of imagination, a large desk, neutrality of Swiss proportions, tactlessness, a high tolerance for archival dust. Most of all it calls for an act of displacement. 'To find your subject, you must in some sense lose yourself along the way,' is Richard Holmes's version.

Stacy Schiff

ImaginationYourselfToleranceLose

Hate crime and hate speech must not be tolerated. Our policy and lawmakers and those who uphold the law must protect the most vulnerable in our society.

Sinead Burke

HateLawSocietySpeechProtectWho

A screenwriter heard me read from my novel 'The Wishbones' when it was still in progress and mentioned me to some producers in Hollywood. They called, and I told them I had a novel in my drawer about a high school election that goes haywire. They asked to take a look, and my life changed pretty dramatically as a result.

Tom Perrotta

LifeProgressSchoolMeHigh School

To me, the Internet is a big scam.

Ry Cooder

MeInternetBigScam

I thought art was a sort of romantic life, or I don't know what I thought art was like. But I learned practically everything I know from Ohio State. And I'm really glad I went.

Roy Lichtenstein

LifeArtRomanticThoughtKnowOhio

I adore gelato; it's a pleasure I shared for years with my friend Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Monica Vitti

FriendYearsPleasureMy Friend

I hope that whenever my daughter has a negative experience, I'm there to talk about it and remind her how we feel when it's done to her so that she doesn't do it to others.

Lorraine Toussaint

DaughterHopeExperienceNegative

There's a lot of single black women who did the best that they could and that's a beautiful thing, but they don't know how necessary a father is in a kid's life and how much guys miss that deep down inside.

LL Cool J

LifeFatherWomenBeautifulBest

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