Greg Louganis Quotes

#1. When you're a kid growing up, and you think you're gay, you know that you're different; you're often teased and it can really destroy your self-esteem. But sports can be great for building self-esteem.

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#2. People who were close to me - family and friends - they knew about my sexuality.

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#3. I do better with routines and predictability. I don't react well when there's a sudden change in the schedule.

Gretchen Rubin

#4. Peak performance is meditation in motion.

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#5. To me, peanut butter is the breakfast of champions!

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#6. have a younger brother, Billy. He drives me crazy,

Kate Clary

#7. Never underestimate your ability to make someone else's life better - even if you never know it.

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#8. Mom was the one who taught me unconditional love. With Dad, I'd always felt there was something to live up to - expectations. But in the last year, we had a wonderful relationship.

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#9. Obscenities are too often used for shock value, as a kind of shorthand for real expression of emotion. You've got to scale down your monstrosities. A scream is not a discovery.

John L'Heureux

#10. I guess you can tease me about being a drama queen, because that did heighten the drama.

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#11. People wait in line to see me, saying there's plenty of living to be done even if you have an HIV diagnosis. People say they are 10- or 15-year survivors and still moving forward.

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#12. I've learned at the book signings that everyone has obstacles.

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#13. Fear is a part of everything you do ... You have to take great risks to get big rewards.

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#14. Every molecule in Jason's body told him he was on enemy ground.

Rick Riordan

#15. There is always someone there to lend a hand.

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#16. When I was growing up, I was obsessed with 'Cagney and Lacey.'

Tamsin Greig

#17. Global warming is another big area that we need to get on top of. [And] diseases in Africa, which we're also working on and seeing if we can make a difference on. And there are lots of issues that governments seem to be blind about.

Richard Branson

#18. I like dogs better [than people]. They give you unconditional love. They either lick your face or bite you, but you always know where they're coming from. With people, you never know which ones will bite. The difference between dogs and men is that you know where dogs sleep at night.

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#19. I just did not discuss my personal life, my sexuality with the media. That was my policy.

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#20. Interact with others as if you are radiating happiness and healing from within.

Franklin Gillette

#21. Well, unless you're Wayne Gretzky or Michael Jordan, you need the full support of your team.

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#22. You can tell when a writer moves out of a place of struggle and into a place of comfort, and it's always a bad thing.

Eleanor Catton

#23. Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things like crystals and rocks are really almost entirely composed of empty space. And the familiar illustration is the nucleus of an atom is a fly in the middle of a sports stadium, and the next atom is in the next sports stadium.

Richard Dawkins

#24. One of my dogs is in the movie Beethoven's 2nd.

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#25. When you come upon a difficult task ... start.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#26. It's great to be out and proud.

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#27. The Games are just a nice, positive way to build friendships, camaraderie and, of course, self-esteem. Plus, the Games are a great opportunity for people to participate in sports who normally wouldn't.

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#28. Others may dislike you because
you are different but somebody loves you because you are different

Jenneive M. Johnson

#29. I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook.

Robert Mondavi

#30. Above the street, like a hanged man, swings the spot-lit sign of the neighborhood's best restaurant, closed a long time ago.

Roberto Bolano

#31. In sports, people reach their peak very early. You have to move on. I don't know if I will ever surpass what I did at the Olympics, but I'm still doing the work I always wanted to do.

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#32. A wrongdoing doesn't give us the right to do wrong.

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