"The desire to really compete again has been there for a long time."

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Katarina Witt

#Long Quotes #Desire Quotes

“You sang in church, you know, and you didn't act at all. You tried not to act, you tried to tell the truth. The idea of being a troubadour on the road singing for your supper was very disturbing to him.”
“Okay, this is Fran Lebowitz. She gave an interview once for the Paris Review about trying to write fiction and saying that fiction writers start talking about how characters are talking to them, and it's crazy, she's never had that. And I also thought, I'm never gonna be able to do this, because I didn't feel that for a really long time.”
“Since the late 1970's, the main focus of prisons has been punishment, not rehabilitation. It's hard to believe, but you would be hard-pressed to find a meaningful violence-prevention class in a federal or state penitentiary. And 'we the people' are footing the bill to keep these folks imprisoned. It costs on average $46,000 a year to keep an adult incarcerated in California and about the same for New York State.”
“While it is emotion that gives an impulse to the landscape painter, it is his style that inspires the critic's praise, and his subject that inveigles the untutored beholder.”
“I believe friends enclose us, like a pair of parentheses. Each one knows us differently, each sustains us in a different way.”
“When you are looking to meet someone, you are looking to settle. Becaue you are not looking for someone, you are looking for anyone”
“The only mistake that we can make as human beings is to be asleep, unaware of ourselves.”
“I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.”

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