"The water doesn't know how old you are."

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Source : "Dara Torres on Goal-Setting at Any Age". Interview with Linda Childers, spryliving.com. June 1, 2012.

Dara Torres

“You don't compete with dollars, but you compete with ideas. Your only real borders are what you can imagine.”
“It occurred to me that nothing is more interesting than opinion when opinion is interesting, so I devised a method of cleaning off the page opposite the editorial, which became the most important in America and thereon I decided to print opinions, ignoring facts.”
“A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.”

Source : Washingtonian magazine, August 01, 1986.
“When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.”
“Levante have gone fourth in Serie A. If anyone can tell me what part of Italy Levante is in, please call. I've no idea”
“Every man is a bachelor out of his wife's sight!”
“After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.”

Source : Martha Gellhorn (1988). “The Face of War”, p.7, Atlantic Monthly Press
“I was born in Sinaloa, Mexico, along with two of my siblings. The rest were born here in the United States. I didn't know we were illegal until I was in the 8th grade. We would call other kids wetbacks, but we were the real wetbacks!”

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