"When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it."

-- Dara Torres

#Team Quotes #Focus Quotes #Body Quotes

“A girl's name ending in 'a' - that always suggests a 'C' cup.”
“Are you kidding? That's the music of the spheres, commissar. It's beautiful. Like old jazz.”
“I grew up in a military family. I was moved around from school to school, so people aren't always the most welcoming to new girls in school.”
“My mother always told me that no matter how much you dislike a person, when you meet them face to face you will find characteristics about them that you like. Jerry Falwell was a perfect example of that. I hated everything he stood for, but after meeting him in person, years after the trial, Jerry Falwell and I became good friends.”
“I would be embarrassed to tell you how many folks ran saying that they weren't going to spend a bunch of money, they weren't going to raise the debt ceiling, and then they went to Washington, D.C., and did exactly that.”

Source : "Freshman 'embarrassed' by rookies" by Jake Sherman, www.politico.com. January 10, 2012.
“I've workshopped Medea where I have goddesses, and I'm naked onstage and painted gold, and talking in tongues, and the goddesses come and dress me, and Hecate arrives and fills me with the power to go kill the children so I can send them to the afterlife and do this for all women. They've never done a Medea like that. They're cheating themselves by not letting me do these roles.”
“It’s not just about being against cruelty. It’s about being for compassion.”
“The land belongs to those who work it with their own hands.”

Source : "Mexican Social Movements and the Transition to Democracy". Book by John Stolle-McAllister, 2005.

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