"I thought I could, and thought I would, swim a lot quicker - much quicker."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Ian Thorpe

“That's what music is: entertainment. The more you put yourself into it, the more of you comes out in it.”
“You can't go through life without your heart being bruised or broken. Otherwise, you're not truly, fully, a person.”
“Live. Love. Smile. Hug. Laugh. Dream. Do. Create. Have fun. Be intense. Be audacious. Be unreasonable. Act impeccably. Breathe. Be you. Be different.”
“The fact is that you don't want to be away forever, but you want to lead a normal life.”
“The thing about tourism is that the reality of a place is quite different from the mythology of it.”
“When you kill time, you kill your opportunities for success.”
“Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth .”

Source : Clifford D. Simak (2015). “Time and Again”, p.158, Open Road Media
“A book sometimes seems to impose a through-line to life that real life doesn't actually have.”

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