"I don't think about the trials and the Olympics a lot. If I do, it's just going to stress me out and get me worried."

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Missy Franklin

#Stress Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Olympics Quotes

“Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.”
“What was the more likely cause of the Oklahoma City bombing: talk radio or Bill Clinton and Janet Renos hands-on management of Waco, the Branch Davidian compound?...Obviously, the answer is talk radio. Specifically Rush Limbaughs hate radio....Frankly, Rush, you have that blood on your hands now and you have had it for 15 years.”
“The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's as though one of God's checks has bounced.”
“Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break.”
“The temptation to use mathematics is irresistible for economists. It appears to convey the appropriate air of scientific authority and precision to economists' musings.”

Source : "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.
“Elton John can be a master of the sleight of hand. The arrangements make it seem like there are substantial melodies underneath the tracks - but almost nothing demands repeated listenings. Similarly, he always sounds like he's singing up a storm, but his voice glosses over the material, reducing most things to an uninteresting sameness.”
“In my mind, he was guilty of no error - he was chargeable with no exaggeration - he was betrayed by his fancy into no metaphor, who once said that all we see about us, Kings, Lords, and Commons, the whole machinery of the State, all the apparatus of the system, and its varied workings, end in simply bringing twelve good men into a box.”

Source : 'Hansard' 7 February 1828, col. 131
“Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 30, 2013

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