"It really was my brother who got me involved in swimming. I wanted to be just like him and do everything he was doing."

-- Summer Sanders

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“Clearly we're in historic times here. We have - one of the tributaries of the Mississippi River is a river called the Merrimack. And the crest areas there - they're going to be a number of feet, 2, 3, 4, over what they were in '93 or '82. And on the Mississippi River itself, down below St. Louis, we're still projecting a couple of feet over that historic number. So the bottom line is there's a significant amount of water that's causing evacuations and challenges throughout that whole area.”

Source : "Flood Conditions To Worsen In Missouri". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 31, 2015.
“When I was 12 or 13, I started to watch films and understand more about the craft and that helped me to develop. But it also felt like a game, because it was fun. I mean, all of us do it when we're kids to a degree - play acting. But then I came to realise that it's a lovely way to express yourself. So, my passion for it developed as I got older.”
“I'm interested in how artists and writers do this, using art as therapy. Escaping into the worlds we create. We're all victims and few of us are truly free.”
“There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism”
“Fights can be dumped in a dozen ways. Sometimes everybody but the fighter knows. Sometimes only the fighter knows.”

Source : Budd Schulberg (2012). “Sparring with Hemingway: And Other Legends of the Fight Game”, p.287, Open Road Media
“Contrary to the norm, as my technique improved my voice became higher.”
“self-interest usually brings injustice with it.”
“The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an Orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them.”

Source : Van Wyck Brooks (1958). “From a writer's notebook”

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