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Daley Thompson Quotes

Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Ambition Champion Greatest Becoming

I think education was the key for me, and that's what I tell kids. That base in the classics gave me something to springboard from, which I wouldn't have had if I'd come out to Los Angeles early and been guest punk of the week on 'Hill Street Blues.'

Education Me Think Key Week Early

I was a TV producer at a noncommercial station, and we were producing some good documentaries - on Head Start, on poverty. But I was struck by the children, and the damage that poverty was doing to them. I didn't think filming them was helping much, so I wondered how we could use TV for them, to teach them.

Joan Ganz Cooney

Good Children Start Think Doing

Perhaps America works like this: Presidencies swing, as reactions to each other, like a pendulum. My optimistic belief is it is how we keep our country in balance.

Balance America Country Swing Belief

One who understands the relationships between the human heart and the human mind will always out-hack those who chase after an ever-changing technology.

Technology Heart Mind Relationships

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

Fiction Read Newspapers Form Avidly

Grafted onto street clothes and removed from the field of play, jerseys don't even flatter men in their physical prime. Witness any baseball player wearing a uniform top over dress shirt and slacks at a press conference podium.

Men Baseball Dress Clothes Play Top

A lot of the bunkering is designed more to save you than it is to penalize you.

You More Save Than Lot Designed

At the outset, my notion of being a writer was that you would have moments of inspiration and moments of frustration, when you'd crumple up your pages and toss them away. On one side, the dustbin would fill up, and on the other side, pages would rise into a novel.

Frustration Moments You Rise Side

My mother brought me magicians and witches, because I was very ugly, really revolting. So she thought somebody had put a spell on me - this is the truth - so she made me drink some horrible terrifying potions, for year.

Roberto Benigni

Mother Truth Ugly Me Thought Year

A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one.

Mary Augusta Ward

School Country Now First Modern

I don't know anything about bullying in Huntington Beach specifically, but I would assume it's very similar to other places.

Beach Bullying Know Places Anything

You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.

Christopher Hampton

You Be True Know Important True

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