"I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days you couldn't see the judges. I was this little person on the ice and they were just people that would stand around the boards."

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Source : "Gold Medal Figure Skater". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 17, 2000.

Dorothy Hamill

#Sports Quotes #Ice Quotes #People Quotes

“With whom do you argue? With a woman, of course. Not with a friend, because he accepted all your defects the moment he found you. Besides, woman is mother-have we forgotten?”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that prepares you for a future of radical transformation.”
“The U.S. public is depoliticised, poorly informed on foreign affairs... and strongly patriotic in the face of a struggle with another Hitler. Even though the public is normally averse to war, even with modest propaganda efforts... the public can be quickly transformed into enthusiastic supporters of war.”
“The stage is life, music, beautiful girls, legs, breasts, not talk or intellectualism or dried-up academics.”
“Our great country is rich and abundant in so many ways. It is totally unacceptable to me that we have children and families going hungry!”
“Remember God likes us best when we are flying by the seats of our pants,”
“It would be a serious oversight to limit our understanding of the impact of theology to strictly religious art, and overlook its pervasive role in shaping human understanding and artistic expression thereof within any given culture-regardless of the subject matter at hand.”
“You can't make somebody care about what you're doing. Either they get it, either there's that connection - or they don't.”

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