"I feel most at home in the water. I disappear. That's where I belong."

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Source : "Interview Michael Phelps" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2004.

Michael Phelps

#Home Quotes #Water Quotes #Disappear Quotes

“I think that the best literature has a core that you can't lock to a time or place but that can generate lots of meanings and translations.”
“There could have never been two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.”
“My criticism is too severe sometimes and that is not good. But why don't you start doing your work unless your leader flies into a rage? It is not that you cannot do it but that you don't want to do it”
“I describe a world with no exit, convinced that God accompanies man throughout his history .”
“I say: If you don't know how to cook, I'm sure you have at least one friend who knows how to cook. Well, call that friend and say, 'Can I come next time and can I bring some food and can I come an hour or two hours ahead and watch you and help you?'”

Source : "Chef Jacques Pepin Eats Airport Hot Dogs, Rarely Spends More than $12 on Wine". The Bon Appétit Magazine Interview, www.bonappetit.com. November 14, 2011.
“When I signed this past summer, Lou Lamoriello, Jacques Lemaire, and I agreed that if we were unable to find a suitable fit in which I would be able to compete and contribute at the level I expect from myself, then I would simply step aside.”
“Fine art is something wonderful that's left long into the future ... eternal beauty.”
“To exaggerate is to weaken.”

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