"I don't rank competitions - every single one is the Olympics to me."

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Blanka Vlasic

#Competition Quotes #Olympics Quotes

“He was Caesar and Pope in oÂne; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without a standing army, without a bodyguard, without a palace, without a fixed revenue; if ever any man had the right to say that he ruled by the right divine, it was Mohammed, for he had all the power without its instruments and without its supports.”
“Failure was not an option. It just wasn't in my vocabulary.”
“Just because you've written a song doesn't mean that you have pulled through. There are definitely songs where I embodied someone else's pain and that was purely to serve the listener because I knew they needed to hear something. But most of the good stuff comes from my life.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realized I'd become an actor.”
“This is so cliche, but my beauty icon would have to be Angelina Jolie. She looks like she wears natural makeup, but she's still beautiful.”
“As I said in my state of the state address, we can no longer rely on gaming and sales taxes to pay our way. Indian gaming next door in California is eroding our major industry in Nevada.”
“Christianity and democracy are inevitably enemies,”
“death, however long expected, is sudden at the last ...”

Source : Mary Jane Holmes (1872). “Dora Deane, Or The East India Uncle: And Maggie Miller, Or Old Hagar's Secret”, p.78

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