"I got beat real hard and heavy in the Olympic Games in 1968 by a guy who swam an incredible race one time in his whole life, but he did it right at the right time. I'd like to be that guy now. Maybe that's what I'm going to have to pull out of my hat to make the Olympic team."

-- Mark Spitz

#Real Quotes #Team Quotes #Games Quotes

“I think making an album is a difficult thing.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Love in an animal sense is an illness, but a necessity which one has to overcome.”

Source : Max Beckmann, Barbara Copeland Buenger (1997). “Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950”, p.304, University of Chicago Press
“Of course, I didn't kill them. They're just taking a little ... siesta, that's all.”
“All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.”
“I tell you, guilt dwells nowhere but in the eyes of the accuser. This men know even as they deny it, which is why they so often make murder their absolution. The truth of crime lies not with the victim but with the witness.”

Source : R. Scott Bakker (2008). “The Thousandfold Thought: The Prince of Nothing, Book Three (The Prince of Nothing)”, p.47, The Overlook Press
“In my teens, I worked as an aide in my community supervising and mentoring youth in various programs and delivering lunches to needy students.”
“Pain? He could handle that, no problem; it was the idea that the female he loved was suffering that made him want to either punch something or vomit in the corner.”
“The standard growth theory tells us that economic growth in per capita basis comes from mainly two sources: capital deepening and total factor productivity growth, or TFP growth.”

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