Top 100 Quotes About A Single Day

#1. That sometimes on the journey to being a grown-up, something would happen that would advance the trip a whole year in a single day.

Karen Kingsbury

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#2. Life is so short. Why waste a single day of it doing something that doesn't matter, that doesn't try to do something big?

Dean Kamen

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#3. The fact that I could secure an opera engagement made me realize I had within me the making of an artist, if I would really labor for such an end. When I became thoroughly convinced of this, I was transformed from an amateur into a professional in a single day.

Enrico Caruso

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#4. In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.

Fanny Kemble

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#5. It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime ...

Khaled Hosseini

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#6. I have no fear of ghosts, and I have never heard it said that so much harm had been done by the dead during 6,000 years as it brought by the living in a single day.

Alexandre Dumas

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#7. Goddamn it. You'll never be without me. We're going to grow old together. Die together. I'm not going to live a single day without you.

Sylvia Day

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#8. Books seem the most potent source: each one is the sum total of a life that can be inhaled in a single day. I read fast, so I'm hoovering up lives at a ferocious pace, six or seven or eight in a week. I particularly love autobiographies: I can eat a whole person by sundown.

Caitlin Moran

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#9. High in the North in a land called Svithjod there is a mountain. It is a hundred miles long and a hundred miles high and once every thousand years a little bird comes to this mountain to sharpen its beak. When the mountain has thus been worn away a single day of eternity will have passed.

Hendrik Willem Van Loon

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#10. In the Kamigata area, they have a sort of tiered lunchbox they use for a single day when flower viewing. Upon returning, they throw them away, trampling them underfoot. The end is important in all things.

Tsunetomo Yamamoto

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#11. Tonight, savagery in the streets of Iraq. Ten Americans die in a single day, four of them civilians murdered, mutilated and dragged through the streets ... What drives American civilians to risk death in Iraq? In this economy it may be, for some, the only job they can find.

Dan Rather

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#12. A single day spent doing things which fail to nourish the soul is a day stolen, mutilated, and discarded in the gutter of destiny.

Michel Faber

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#13. Dad and Gram didn't take a single day on the ranch for granted. Regardless of the weather, the greeted each morning as if they'd embrace it, filling their eyes with a vaulting sky and sagebrush-coverd ridges. Then they gave silent prayer of thanks for living the life they loved.

Terri Farley

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#14. On a single day, I read articles where I was described as being alternately 'lanky,' 'pudgy,' 'doughy,' 'balding,' 'utterly forgettable,' and 'constantly irritating.'

Stephen Tobolowsky

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#15. But afterwards there occurred violent earthquakes and floods; and in a single day and night of misfortune all your warlike men in a body sank into the earth, and the island of Atlantis in like manner disappeared in the depths of the sea.

Plato

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#16. There are people who fly to the height of stardom in a single day, and then there are people like me. I used to have this ridiculous idea that I absolutely had to be a big, big movie star. Now all I'm after is happiness.

Teri Polo

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#17. Let no one rob me of a single day who is not going to make me an adequate return for such a loss.

Seneca.

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#18. The lifetime of a human being is measured by decades, the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Compared to a star, we are like mayflies, fleeting ephemeral creatures who live out their lives in the course of a single day.

Carl Sagan

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#19. The number of those endowed with human life is as small as the amount of earth one can place on a fingernail. Life as a human being is hard to sustain
as hard as it is for the dew to remain on the grass. But it is better to live a single day with honor than to live to 120 and die in disgrace.

Gautama Buddha

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#20. News of the Indian Mutiny had taken forty-six days to reach London in 1857, travelling at an effective speed of 3.8 miles an hour. News of the huge Nobi earthquake in Japan in 1891 took a single day, travelling at 246 miles an hour, sixty-five times faster.50

Niall Ferguson

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#21. No one knew.
Then Lily's mum knew, of course.
Then Lily knew.
And then everyone knew. Everyone. Which changed the whole world in a single day.
And he was never going to forgive her for that.

Patrick Ness

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#22. So I learned that after a single day's experience of the outside world a man could easily live a hundred years in prison.

Albert Camus

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#23. Never gonna forget a single day, baby. Good and bad, they all add up to the story of us. I'm gonna take everyone one and cherish it, come what may.

J.T. Geissinger

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#24. Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.

Sophocles

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#25. There's nothing you can take for granted; not a single day, not a single minute, not a single relationship.

Brian Stann

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#26. We actually did a lot of takes on this movie [J. Edgar Hoover ]. I never left the set wanting more. That's for sure. I don't know. This was a very difficult character for me and a lot of the other actors here, and at times we went and did 8 or 9 or 10 takes on a single day.

Leonardo DiCaprio

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#27. In seven days God had created the Earth. In a single day mankind had turned it upside down.

Kristina McMorris

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#28. I cannot help but find it telling that she successfully felled two grown men in a single day." Mater's eyes slid to Corbin's bruised face. "If I had to guess, I would say she has experience defending herself physically against men. Not a very comforting thought.

Sarah M. Eden

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#29. I love you. There hasn't been a single day in the last 15 years that I haven't regretted not telling you when I had a chance.

Katherine Allred

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#30. The resurrection proclamation could not have been maintained in Jerusalem for a single day, for a single hour, if the emptiness of the tomb had not been established as a fact.

Paul Althaus

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#31. She searched her mind for a single day when it had felt good to be alive. There must have been one, surely?

Rachel Abbott

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#32. I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day.
A note struck and vanished. A sounding. A reckoning. Gone.

Jeanette Winterson

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#33. Our lives are made of these moments. Simple words and actions, taken together, weave a single day, and our days become our life. Every gesture is a seed, and the seed determines the harvest.

Wayne Muller

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#34. The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

Joseph Addison

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#35. Resuming the sequence after just a single day of a break is much easier to do than after two or more days. Things

Dan Luca

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#36. I don't remember a single day during the time I was minister of gender, foreign minister, vice-president and president when I saw anything on the part of the men that indicated they were undermining me.

Joyce Banda

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#37. To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

Winston S. Churchill

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#38. I'd rather spend every day of my life in hell with you than a single day in heaven with you nowhere to be found.

F.E. Feeley Jr.

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#39. I am not sure how a novel changes the world. I think it alters a reader's perspective by asking him or her to see the world through another consciousness. That can perhaps cause people to see their own lives differently. Or just give a single day, a single moment, a slightly different sheen.

Edan Lepucki

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#40. I cannot neglect prayer for a single day.

Martin Luther

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#41. I have heard it said that the dead have never done, in six thousand years, as much evil as the living do in a single day.

Alexandre Dumas

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#42. You're the only thing I've ever done right in my entire life and if anything ever happened to you, they'd have to dig two graves 'cause I couldn't live a single day without my baby beside me. (Cherise)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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#43. Fool! You may hate me ... But I ... I haven't stopped thinking of you for a single day.

Rumiko Takahashi

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#44. Kyoya: A single day can make all the difference.

Bisco Hatori

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#45. I don't have the strength or wisdom to get through a single day without guidance and grace from God.

Tony Dungy

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#46. Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for wrongs of a century, demand the vengeance of a single day?

Maximilien Robespierre

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#47. He would rather die with her than live a single day more without her.

Jackie Williams

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#48. How many thought does the brain automatically deliver in a single day?"
"Seventy thousand"
"That's right. Do you act on seventy thousand thoughts a day?"
I shake my head.
"Of course you don't. This thought was one in seventy thousand. It's not special

Tamara Ireland Stone

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#49. There wasn't a single day in which the world was created. It's created anew at every moment. The structures of eternity are completely fluid but they are bound together by the mind forming a nexus point so reality comes into being.

Frederick Lenz

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#50. Corn can add inches in a single day; if you listened, you could hear it grow.

Laura Ruby

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#51. I may change my opinion on the same subject, the same event, ten, twenty, thirty times in the course of a single day. And to think that each time, like the worst impostor, I dare utter word "truth"!

Emil Cioran

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#52. Not sure there's been a single day of my life when everything was totally fine. And now? The best I can say is once in a while I'm not somersaulting in chaos.

Ellen Hopkins

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#53. Seventy years of life is nothing in front of a single day of death

Munia Khan

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#54. Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day's life of one who is wise and meditative.

Gautama Buddha

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#55. The only person worthy of your love is not one who overstayed in the relationship without a single change, but one, who appeared like an angel, and used a single day to make a million change.

Michael Bassey

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#56. Rewards for good service should not be deferred a single day.

Sun Tzu

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#57. More data flows into the building in a single day than mankind as a whole would have generated in the twenty-three centuries between the death of Socrates and the invention of the telephone.

Alain De Botton

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#58. Time is a funny thing. I was always puzzled with the way a single day could stretch itself out to the point of eternity in your mind, all while years melted down into the fraction of a second.

Gloria Naylor

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#59. If I should neglect prayer but a single day, I should lose a great deal of the fire of faith.

Martin Luther

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#60. Time passes, like clouds in the sky. Weeks and months go by as if they were a single day. Summer fades to fall, winter yields to spring, different minutes of the same hour.

Martel, Yann

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#61. Time is always wanting to me, and I cannot meet with a single day when I am nut hurried along, driven to by wits'-end by urgent work, business to attent do or some service to render.

George Sand

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#62. Have you ever been in jail, mate? Whatever you did in your life, nothing can be compared to a single day in jail.

Stefania Mattana

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#63. I caught you, saved you from painting the ground with your organs. You owed me a favor, and I asked for a single day without bloodshed.' 'Yeah, but you didn't specify which day.' With that, Paris dismissed the angel.

Gena Showalter

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#64. And above it all the butterfly effect. The sure knowledge that the entire life of a human being is like a single day in that human's life: unplannable, unpredictable, governed by the hidden tides of chaotic factors and buffered by butterfly wings ...

Dan Simmons

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#65. Look for an occupation that you like, and you will not need to labor for a single day in your life.

Confucius

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#66. To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching.

Gautama Buddha

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#67. I've always enjoyed a comfortable life without having to perform a single day of honest labor. Now I have responsibilities.

Lisa Kleypas

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#68. I never forgot you - not for a single day, not for a single moment.

Paulo Coelho

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#69. Both citizens and noncitizens bribed by the Party by means of jobs and liquor cast as many illegal ballots as they can in a single day, after which said votes will be either tossed in the river or purposefully miscounted.

Lyndsay Faye

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#70. Perry," he said quietly, his fingers trailing down the side of my face, "you'll never have to save my life. You gave me life. I never lived a single day until the first day I met you.

Karina Halle

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#71. The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning.

Paul Gauguin

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#72. Mr. Sand, do you think it's possible to fall in love in the space of a single day?"
He smiled. "I wouldn't know. I only fall in love at night. Never lasts beyond breakfast, though.

Tessa Dare

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#73. Hurry, hurry, hurry, she said, for it was dark then, and she knew that we are bound, one to another, in licentious benevolence for only a single day, and that day was nearly over.

John Cheever

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#74. There's never been A day in the last four years I've been proud to be his Vice President. Not a single day.

Joe Biden

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#75. There's only so much a woman can endure in a single day without a bracing bout of giggles.

Kelly Eileen Hake

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#76. Fear is the root of all evil. Better live a single day fearlessly than living a long but fearful life. Especially, never fear another human being. Fear is the root of all relationship problems.

His Holiness Divas

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#77. We all have inner demons to fight, we call these demons, fear and hatred and anger. If you do not conquer them then a life of one hundred years is a tragedy. If you do, then a life of a single day can be a triumph.

Yip Man

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#78. Would to God that we might spend a single day really well!

Thomas A Kempis

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#79. Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.

Helen Hayes

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#80. With modern American dentistry it is simply amazing to see what transformation can be wrought in a single day.

Christopher Hitchens

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#81. We are bombarded on all sides by a vast number of messages we don't want or need. More information is generated in a single day than we can absorb in a lifetime. To fully enjoy life, all of us must find our own breathing space and peace of mind.

James E. Faust

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#82. A single day is sufficient for a man to discover what happiness is.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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#83. A bloody and complete victory has sometimes yielded no more than the possession of the field and the loss of ten thousand men has sometimes been sufficient to destroy, in a single day, the work of ages.

Edward Gibbon

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#84. They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

Jean De La Bruyere

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#85. Ruth once wrote, "Dear Journal, Never let a single day pass without saying an encouraging word to each child . . .'More people fail for lack of encouragement,' someone wrote, 'than for any other reason.

Billy Graham

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#86. Conservation of national sanitation is Swaraj work and it may not be postponed for a single day on any consideration whatsoever.

Mahatma Gandhi

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#87. The difference of a single day is perceptible. Vegetables can only be tasted in perfection, gathered the same day.

John Pintard

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#88. A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Paul Klee

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#89. Let not a single day pass without your learning a verse, half a verse, or a fourth of it, or even one letter of it; nor without attending to charity, study and other pious activity.

Chanakya

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#90. Seeing America slowly was, in a way, like eating slow food-I wasn't covering much ground in a single day, but I was digesting a lot more.

Rinker Buck

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#91. There's not a single day when I walk the streets of New York City when someone doesn't come up to me to say: 'Please, please, ask your dad to run for president.' We really need a businessman as leader of our country, not a politician.

Eric Trump

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#92. The fabric of a mighty state, which has been reared by the labours of successive ages, could not be overturned by the misfortune of a single day, if the fatal power of the imagination did not exaggerate the real measure of the calamity.

Edward Gibbon

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#93. So I learned that even after a single day's experience of the outside world a man could easily live a hundred years in prison. He'd have laid up enough memories never to be bored. Obviously, in one way, this was a compensation.

Anonymous

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#94. My photos are my diary. Every photo is no more than the representation of a single day. And each day contains the past and the projection into the future. That's why I feel compelled to indicate the date on every picture I take.

Nobuyoshi Araki

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#95. Make your Vacation into Vacation and you will not have to work a single day.

Nicholas Lore

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#96. If a retainer will just think about what he is to do for the day at hand, he will be able to do anything. If it is a single day's work, one should be able to put up with it. Tomorrow, too is but a single day.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

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#97. Needless to say, this would be an unthinkable crime - as it would kill tens of millions of innocent civilians in a single day - but it may be the only course of action available to us, given what Islamists believe

Sam Harris

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#98. Hostile armies may face each other for years, striving for the victory which is decided in a single day. This being so, to remain in ignorance of the enemy's condition simply because one grudges the outlay of a hundred ounces of silver in honors and emoluments, is the height of inhumanity.

Sun Tzu

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#99. No one can be transferred from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God without a great battle and by the good fight of faith. No one receives full light in a single day. Great faithfulness is required for us to receive more light.

Johan Oscar Smith

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#100. I had trouble finding my next goal after winning a gold medal at the Vancouver Olympics, but the interest of the public and my fans in me got even bigger. I wanted to get away from the pressure, even for a single day.

Kim Yuna

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