"Giving life to music through skating was something I wanted to be known for"

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Source : Peggy Fleming, Peter Kaminsky (2000). “The Long Program: Skating Toward Life's Victories”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

Peggy Fleming

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“Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling.”
“No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.”
“One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.”
“I started from zero and went back to the basics in gymnastics.”
“I think there is nothing more lovely than the love of two beautiful women who are not envious of each other's charms.”
“I say it is indispensable to look ahead of and behind oneself in the present. If there is such a thing as tradition, and I believe there is, it can only exist in the sense of the most profound movements of culture.”
“I want my girls to love math. I want them to think that being a scientist is the coolest possible job on the planet. I want them to not be afraid to lean toward their femininity.”
“The religious and irreligious are agreeing with each other almost all the time. Their rhetoric is the same, and their plans are the same. Through slightly different interpretations, they all think the same thing is going to happen, that the Earth is going to be perfected and that humans are going to do the work of perfecting it.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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