"Part of me didn't know if Australia wanted its champion to be gay."

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Source : "Ian Thorpe: I'm finally comfortable saying I'm a gay man" by Amanda Meade, www.theguardian.com. July 13, 2014.

Ian Thorpe

#Gay Quotes #Australia Quotes #Champion Quotes

“I find that I can have no enjoyment in the world but the continual drinking of knowledge. I find there is no worthy pursuit but the idea of doing some good for the world.”
“Your life may be really boring in reality, but online you're a competitive superhero.”
“I used to butcher my Barbies. I would draw hearts on their cheeks. I would give them haircuts and I would keep going because it would be uneven and they would be left bald”
“I think free speech is probably the coolest thing we have in this country, and again, you can label it hate speech and dismiss it, and then you're allowed to censor it.”
“For me, writing plays is far more an act of the mind than of the emotions. It's a very different kind of impulse than fiction writing.”
“Indeed, one of the most frightening consequences of the Holocaust may well be that rather than serving as a warning to preserve humanity at all cost, it has provided a license to privilege physical survival over moral existence.”

Source : Omer Bartov (2000). “Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide, and Modern Identity”, p.176, Oxford University Press
“I do prenatal yoga and walk a lot.”

Source : "Kelli Williams: Practice Makes Perfect". Interview with Celeste Fremon, www.fitpregnancy.com. March 5, 2009.
“I.B.M. was my college education, effectively. They were very good at teaching you management.”

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