"If you put your mind to something, if you give 100 percent, if you sacrifice, and if you dedicate yourself, anything is truly possible."

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Source : Apolo Ohno (2011). “Zero Regrets: Be Greater Than Yesterday”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

Apolo Ohno

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“There are more stakes [in Mary and Jane], which is always good.”
“I decided to write the book to open the eyes of the people of how corrupt John D. Rockefeller company was and the unfair ways he used to be successful. I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.”

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“All schools of philosophy, and almost all authors, are rather to be frequented for exercise than for weight.”
“The Industrial Revolution was another one of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.”
“We were on Island Records for five or six years and we kinda just got tired of them always wanting to use our connections, all the time. It's like, they didn't really do much for us, I mean, they would give us money here and there and you know, do stuff like that but, I mean, overall, they didn't push us.”

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“When the old way of seeing was displaced, a hollowness came into architecture. Our buildings show a constant effort to fill that void, to recapture that sense of life which was once to be found in any house or shed. Yet the sense of place is not to be recovered through any attitude, device, or style, but through the principles of pattern, spirit, and context.”
“Colours change: in the morning light, red shines out bright and clear and the blues merge into their surroundings, melting into the greens; but by the evening the reds loose their piquancy, embracing a quieter tone and shifting toward the blues in the rainbow. Yellow flowers remain bright, and white ones become luminous, shining like ghostly figures against a darkening green background.”
“The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.”

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