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"I mean you got to thank your parents for giving you the right genes."
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"I raised frogs every spring in our house from tadpoles and by end of summer our house was overrun with frogs."
"We were very happy when a South African court, which had previously ruled against us, took another look and decided that this material was not obscene and allowed it into the country."
"The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine."
"There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American."
"It's best to keep America just like that, always in the background, a sort of picture post card which you look at in a weak moment. Like that, you imagine it's always there waiting for you, unchanged, unspoiled, a big patriotic open space with cows and sheep and tenderhearted men ready to bugger everything in sight, man, woman or beast. It doesn't exist, America. It's a name you give to an abstract idea."
"Every color I can think of and nationality, we were all touched by Dr. King because he made us like each other and respect each other."
"The drive toward economic nationalism is only part of the general revival of nationalism."
"When I was younger I was trying to do what I wanted to do, not what the game wanted me to do."
"It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish."
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"It's not a sport you get famous at. If I wanted to be famous, I would have stuck with hockey."
"One thing is having skated five of the best races I've probably could have skated. It was nice to peak at the right time and to do it in an important time in somebody's career."
"I'd rather get a nice warmup suit. That's something I can use. Gold medals just sit there. When I get old, maybe I could sell them if I need the money."
"We used to lift weights a couple of times a week, we did a lot of running. I enjoyed the variety."
"I would recommend anybody who gets a chance to see short track skating, make it a point to go out there when Apolo is skating because you won't see anybody better."
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