I think marathon swimming makes you work more on your upper body, your abdomen, trapezius, and your arms. When you finish a race, your arms and abdomen are more tired than your legs. Your legs are tired because you’ve just sprinted for the line, but at the end of the race, when you start to relax, it’s your arms that hurt. Poliana Okimoto Read Quote
I keep trying to explain to people that the archetype of intelligence is not Dustin Hoffman in ‘The Rain Man;’ it is a human being, period. It is squishy things that explode in a vacuum, leaving footprints on their moon. Eliezer Yudkowsky Read Quote
If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education. Malala Yousafzai Read Quote
One of the most extraordinary and all-encompassing forms of communication is music. It reaches places that all kinds of other things cannot reach. I’ll put my cards on the table: I think it is our greatest language. Simon Rattle Read Quote
When Joe Rogan started his podcasts he’d have me, Joe Diaz, and all our friends help him for the first few. And I told him ‘Dude, no one will listen to audio that’s over an hour long. You’ve got to end it at 59:59 or less.’ And I was way wrong. Ari Shaffir Read Quote
Ever closer union’ is one of the totemically controversial phrases in the European Union’s Treaties. It seems to give weight to the view that the scheme is designed to end in a single state and that those who agreed the texts have long know this, even if they have been unwilling to admit it to the British people. Jacob Rees-Mogg Read Quote
First of all I would make about 80% of the people law-abiding citizens again. The policy which is carried out now makes every entrepreneur and businessman a thief against his own will. Aleksandr Lebed Read Quote
I don’t know how these bands did it back in the ’70s when they would crank out two records a year and tour at the same time, which is incredible to me. I have so much respect for all those bands working so hard like that. Wayne Static Read Quote
I remind audiences that I’m in the fortunate position to make a film about my family. Yair Lapid Read Quote
