"It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same."

-- Dan O'Brien

#Morning Quotes #Mean Quotes #Gold Quotes

“...we live in a selectively infantilized culture where twentysomethings are children if they're serving in the Third Infantry Division in Ramadi but grown-ups making rational choices if they drop to the broadloom in President Clinton's Oval Office...”
“All power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; [...] magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all times amenable to them.”
“We know that a ready amnesty tends to be an invitation to more illegal entries.”
“I admire my father greatly.”

Source : "Annan: 'Hell no,' I won't go" by Richard Roth and Phil Hirschkorn, www.cnn.com. March 30, 2005.
“If food did not exist it would be well-nigh impossible to get certain types off the phone, as one would be unable to say, 'Look, I've got to run but let's have dinner sometime soon.'”
“Luck is being in the right place at the right time, but location and timing are to some extent under our control.”
“What would have been the effect upon religion if it had come to us through the minds of women?”

Source : Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2012). “Herland and Related Writings”, p.209, Broadview Press
“I see all the red carpet paparazzi stuff and I'm like, 'Really? Do I have to?!' I like to work and I know that's part of the job. But you kind of take it in stride.”

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