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“Success is always an easier motivator, because you want more of it. But I've also been motivated by failure. Had I medaled in London, I don't think I would be one of the few that have gone to a Summer and Winter. I would have been content with that medal. Instead, I used that failure to go to the Winter Olympics. I always tell people that failure can be one of your biggest motivators if you just have an attitude adjustment about it.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Has Beens Would Be Used Attitude Gone Easier Summer Winter London Motivated Olympics Medal Adjustment Summer And Winter Attitude Adjustment Winter Olympics

Author:Lolo Jones

“I think that everybody that's coming out to Warped Tour, when they come to see the show, they're always like; let's go see that band that band that band and... that girl. I think that I tend to be that girl sometimes and I think that it's cool that I get to hang out with this Summer camp of smelly boys.”

Thinking Sometimes Shows Girl Boys Band Summer Hanging Out Camps Coming Out That Girl Summer Camp Smelly Warped Tour

Author:Katy Perry

“But the other audience, I think, is people in Central America because since last summer, they've been running ads down there - the United States government has - don't come, it's dangerous. You will be immediately deported. That's literally what it says in Spanish.”

People Thinking States Government Running Lasts America United United States Audience Dangerous Summer Ads State Government United States Government Central America Last Summer

Author:Mark Krikorian

“It's too hot for me to bother with wearing my hair down in the summer. I'd rather pin it up in braids, or throw it in a top knot so I don't have to think about it the rest of the day.”

Thinking Hair Summer Hot Bother Pins Knots Braids

Author:Mia Moretti

“I think summer, at least as I've experienced it, can be joyous but it can also be tough emotionally. Physically, it can be hot to the point of being unbearable and I think you want to capture that frustration, but also the release.”

Thinking Want Summer Tough Hot Release Frustration Capture Unbearable Joyous

Author:Rostam Batmanglij

“There have been so many times where I thought I put on enough sunscreen but actually didn't. As a result, I'd get unbelievable tan lines. Of course in Florida it was expected, but now looking back at pictures, I think I spent an entire summer at the beach with my friends looking like a tomato. A bright shade of red.”

Thinking Has Beens Enough Courses Lines Results Summer My Friends Red Expected Beach Shade Looking Back Florida Unbelievable Tomatoes Sunscreen

Author:Brittany Snow

“I think I'm just a summer fling that people will soon forget.”

People Thinking Forget Summer Fling Summer Fling

Author:John Oliver

“I worked in television now for a few years. I think summer has become a really exciting time for television shows. And I think it's become a time for shows to distinguish themselves.”

Thinking Years Shows Television Summer Exciting Television Shows

Author:James Wolk

“A lot of things that people think are risky, I don't think are risky. I don't get all that. I think what was really risky for network television was to let cable television to take the summers.”

People Thinking Television Summer Cables

Author:James Patterson

“Why would you let [the TV audiences] build a habit of going to the cable networks? So I think they've obviously smartened up now, and they're not giving the summer to cable anymore.”

Thinking Giving Audience Tvs Habit Summer Cables

Author:James Patterson

“When I was secretary of state, I had to be responsible for getting a nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia through the Senate. We needed, I think, 13 Republican votes to get to 67. I started working in the summer making just endless phone calls, meetings, bringing experts to talk to Republicans, and then we finally got it done at the end of the year 2010. So I'm excited to roll up my sleeves and get into the business of solving problems and making progress together.”

“I had this aunt who had a career and traveled. She'd say things like, "When you go to college, I think we should go scuba diving in the summer. The scuba diving in Portugal is fabulous." And I'd be like, "Portugal! Holy cats!".”

Thinking Should Careers College Holy Summer Cat Traveled Fabulous Aunt Diving Portugal Scuba Scuba Diving

Author:Geena Davis

“My summer time tip is to wear shorts and light shirts; everything in summery fabrics such as linen and cotton. And don't think about work.”

Thinking Light Summer Shirts Fabric T Shirt Cotton Shorts Linen Summer Time

Author:Domenico Dolce

“The main thing I like to do is have a mix of the '70s glamour and emulate a lot of ladies I love, like, Diana Ross, Chaka Khan, Donna Summers. I remember thinking that as a young girl, they were so cool and iconic. I missed that!”

Thinking Remember Young Girl Summer Glamour Iconic Emulate Diana

Author:Jillian Hervey

“We met in the summer or fall of 2001. I had never met Kate [DiCamillo], though I'd heard her name, and I think she knew of me too. We were laughing within a few minutes, I mean really, furiously, laughing. So we were off to a good start.”

Thinking Mean Fall Names Laughing Heard Minutes Mets Summer Kate

Author:Alison McGhee

“So we [with Kate DiCamillo] decided to give the friends an object and see what they did with it. The object was a sock and it went from there. Once we got going, once we got on a roll, it became very easy to work together and to figure out how to do it. We would meet for two-hour segments, usually from 10-12, two or three times a week. We met all one summer, and I think into the fall.”

Thinking Giving Two Together Fall Three Easy Hours Week Figures Objects Mets Summer Decided Working Together Three Times Sock Kate

Author:Alison McGhee

“Usually when I go to the Summer Exhibition, I think every room is too much the same, and I loose my capacity to look at individual works.”

Thinking Looks Individual Rooms Too Much Summer Capacity Exhibitions Individual Work

Author:Michael Craig-Martin

“I got into cooking and I went and cooked in Italy. I became a doula for a while. I built stone walls one summer, and I read a lot, and I swam a lot, and I spent a lot of time thinking.”

Thinking Wall Summer Built Stones Cooking Stone Walls Doulas

Author:Gaby Hoffmann

“I came back and decided that I wanted to go to college for acting and got my family on board. My mom, who was a single mom, was a little reticent, but I think after that summer [in the Governor's School], she saw a shift in me and realized that it was something I wanted more than just a hobby.”

Thinking Littles Wanted School Acting Saws College Mom Summer My Family Decided My Mom Boards Governors Hobbies Single Mom

Author:Zachary Quinto

“There has been a ton of excellent music in this period (along with a few misses), evoking scenes like a bar-room brawl at a border-town dive, a washed-up singer in a smoky lounge, and the scenes of violence in Bob Dylan latter-day music videos.I think the ethos of this period is best summed up in the 2001 song "Summer Days".”

Thinking Has Beens Song Rooms Violence Missing Periods Scene Summer Towns Singers Bars Video Excellent Borders Latter Bob Dylan Ethos Latter Days Summer Days

Author:Jay Michaelson

“It makes me think about how you hear these young people say, "I see you, man." Or even if you go and watch some basketball game over the summer and the announcer goes, "I see you," and you see that player smile. You know what I mean? That thing of just being recognized, especially when you do a little subtle thing. I don't know.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Men Mean Littles Young Games Watches Player Basketball Summer Subtle Just Being Basketball Game Announcers Game Over

Author:Paul Beatty

“We have seen that [Zika virus] has caused, and is causing, a whole series of problems for pregnant women and for their unborn children, and we are seeing that it is transmitted by mosquitos, and mosquitos are a serious matter during the summer in Florida. So we are very worried about those funds not being available. There is $500 million dollars available from the Ebola money that was not used. I think it is going to be used immediately.”

“I tried to go to community college for a while, and it's a funny story. I walked into the English class on the first day, and they told us to write about what we did over the summer. I can't remember exactly, but I think I walked out exactly at that point and went to the office to ask for my money back.”

Thinking Writing Firsts I Can Stories Remember Asks Community Class College Office Summer Community College Funny Story English Class

Author:Zach Condon

“Our problem in Quebec is our summer is so short that we can't wear bathing suits, whatever, what kind of bathing suit. So I mean, we have this debate with political parties involved whether we should forbid the burkini yes or no, and this was in the media, you know, front page for days and days and days. This is wildly exaggerated. And people that don't live for instance in Montreal, where they don't have a diverse population, they think this is a real problem.”

“I think just having smooth skin is so great because when you get your summer tan, you don't have to do anything. It's just soft and smooth.”

Thinking Summer Skins Smooth Smooth Skin

Author:Gigi Hadid

“At a meeting in her office in the late summer of 2002, months before the war in Iraq, prisoner abuse at Guantanamo is discussed. Condoleezza Rice brings in Donald Rumsfeld for a meeting, and they all agree they have to do something. Nothing gets done. Did everybody understand we were going to be as tough as we could be people we thought were Al Qaeda? Is there a better way to get information, get their trust, establish rapport, try to change their views? Nobody wants to think about that. It's just, let's beat them up. And that attitude was widespread throughout the Administration.”

People Thinking Trying War Done Attitude Office Summer Tough Abuse Agree Meetings Prisoner Rice Al Qaeda Rapport

Author:Seymour Hersh

“In general, I think there are some things that require time before you can talk about them. Some stuff that happened over the summer, for instance - the Philando Castile shooting, Alton Sterling, the police officers in Dallas - there was no room for jokes. But there are, of course, the policies that have given us those events. Now, there's a lot of room for jokes there. When you're looking at something difficult to talk about, there's always a sideways way in that feels a little less personal to people. That's where the joke lives.”

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Author:Negin Farsad

“The thing about summer is, I think it is pretty easy to dress comfortably, like I tend to gravitate more toward flowy, easy pieces. When summer comes around, I am definitely dressing for comfort.”

Thinking Easy Comfort Summer

Author:Lauren Conrad

“I have a life, I have a wife. I have an adult son who I'm very close to, and friends. I go hiking almost every day, four to six miles. In the summer, I'm out surfing or swimming. I think that real, human relationships with people mostly balance dark places in my work.”

People Thinking Real Dark Wife Son Balance Summer Swimming Surfing Human Relations Human Relationships

Author:Don Winslow

“It doesn't matter if it's 90 degrees in the summer and it's killer hot in Milan. The guys still put on their jackets to leave their office to go get lunch and bring it back to the office. You never see that in America. Guys barely can put on their shirts to go to the office or keep their tie done, so I think there is a romance that they're willing to and enjoy that formality that they've created there in Milan and all across Italy, but especially in Milan.”

Thinking Done Romance Guy Enjoy Office Summer Hot Shirts

Author:Scott Schuman

“I decided when I was 19 that I didn't like all these stereotypes that I was supposed to fit into. I wasn't comfortable and they made me very unhappy. So I tried and I spent a miserable summer, and then I went back to school and said, 'I'm going to do my own thing because I think I have a thing to do. I'm not going to live in anybody else's image because I don't like that.' I felt much better. I didn't do it to rebel against anybody or anything.”

Thinking School Fit Summer Unhappy Miserable Rebel Stereotype

Author:Iris Apfel

“I knew I liked art. I knew I liked photography. I remember seeing photos of Linda Evangelista in Italian Vogue as a teenager, and at the time I didn't know who she was. There were two photos - one shot by Fabrizio Ferri and another one by Steven Meisel. I didn't know who any of those people were. I think it was the first summer I was modeling, I saw these magazines sitting out and looked at them. I remember thinking, These are the kind of images I want to make.”

People Thinking Kind Art Remember Summer Photography Teenager Italian Modeling Vogue

Author:Amber Valletta

“This is something that Randi Weingarten said to me when I interviewed her once, which I think I quote in chapter nine. She talks about how only 7 percent of private sector workers in the American economy are in unions. So all the protections that teachers have that are due to collective bargaining - including generous pensions, generous health plans, limits to what they can be asked to do after school and in the summers - all of those things are sources of resentment to the public. And I think that politicians have played off of that quite effectively.”

Thinking School Economy Teacher Politician Summer Protection Generous Resentment Pension After School

Author:Dana Goldstein

“I came out to Los Angeles for a couple of meetings in the summer of 2005, and I ended up getting a movie called Firehouse Dog for Fox. And I thought, "Oh, man. I'm doing a movie. Maybe I'll work a lot more now. I'm an actor now." Then, for eight, nine months I didn't work after that. After that movie, I began to get some guest star roles, fairly consistently, but because I had been so presumptuous before in thinking that the other jobs would lead to something, I realized: "Just get up. Go to work. Go home. This is your job just like everyone else's job."”

Thinking Men Home Dog Couple Summer Meetings I Realized Los Angeles Consistently Presumptuous

Author:Teddy Sears

“I wanted to race cars. I didn't like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before I graduated, I got into a really bad car accident, and I spent that summer in the hospital thinking about where I was heading. I decided to take education more seriously and go to a community college.”

Thinking Wanted School Community Race Car College Summer Decided Accidents Hospitals Headings Race Car Car Accident Community College

Author:George Lucas

“That makes me think of the 2002 World Cup Final above all else. Nobody thought at the time that our team would get through to the Final against Brazil. We should remember that this summer.”

Thinking World Should Remember Team Summer Finals Cups Brazil World Cup Cup Finals

Author:Angela Merkel

“Other men wear white suits in summer and it doesn't seem to bother them. But my white suit seems to be a little whiter than theirs. I think also that it may have something written on the back of it, although I can't find it when I take the suit off.”

Thinking Men May Littles I Can Seems White Comedy Written Summer Suits Bother

Book:My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew

Source: My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew

“When you say, 'I spent my summers at the Jersey Shore,' people always say, 'Oh, really?' They think of the TV show. So I just say, 'A cute little harbor town in New Jersey.'”

People Thinking Littles Shows Tvs Summer Towns Cute Shore Tv Shows Jersey Harbors New Jersey Jersey Shore

Author:Taylor Swift

“Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people's culture and working people's culture and so forth.”

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Author:Cornel West

“Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!”

Thinking Knows Giving Should Trying Might Jobs Boys Giving Up Summer Not Giving Up Pitcher Day Jobs

Author:Garth Brooks

“To think that the affairs of this life always remain in the same state is a vain presumption; indeed they all seem to be perpetually changing and moving in a circular course. Spring is followed by summer, summer by autumn, and autumn by winter, which is again followed by spring, and so time continues its everlasting round. But the life of man is ever racing to its end, swifter than time itself, without hope of renewal, unless in the next that is limitless and infinite.”

“In time, the hurt began to fade and it was easier to just let it go. At least I thought it was. But in every boy I met in the next few years, I found myself looking for you, and when the feelings got too strong, I'd write you another letter. But I never sent them for fear of what I might find. By then, you'd gone on with your life and I didn't want to think about you loving someone else. I wanted to remember us like we were that summer. I didn't ever want to lose that.”

“Can't stay long, Mother," he said. "I'm up front, the prefects have got two compartments to themselves-" "Oh, are you a prefect, Percy?" said one of the twins, with an air of great surprise. "You should have said something, we had no idea." "Hang on, I think I remember him saying something about it," said the other twin. "Once-" "Or twice-" "A minute-" "All summer-" "Oh, shut up," said Percy the Prefect.”

“I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree.”

“I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing room”

Thinking Mother Rooms Summer Singing Dresses Blue Lunch Afternoon Dressings Dressing Rooms Twirling Blue Dress

Author:Audrey Niffenegger

“Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.”

Source: Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard

“leaning in he kissed her gently, first on the cheek then on her lips. When he met her eyes, she saw the young man shed loved last summer and the young man she still loved now. "I never stopped loving you, Ronnie. and I never stopped thinking about you. even if summers do come and end" she smiled knowing he was telling the truth. "I love you too, Will Blakelee" she wispered, leaning in to kiss him again.”

“I think there are two different oceans - the one that plays with you in the summer, and the one that gets so mad in the winter.”

Thinking Two Different Play Ocean Summer Mad Winter

Book:Handle with Care: A Novel

Source: Handle with Care: A Novel

“But the humans weren't what made my steps falter as I walked through grass that had turned bright green with summer's touch. It was Dimitri. Always Dimitri. Dimitri, the man I loved. Dimitri, the Strigoi I wanted to save. Dimitri, the monster I'd most likely have to kill. The love we'd shared always burned within me, no matter how often I told myself to move on, no matter how much the world did think I'd move on. He was always with me, always on my mind, always making me question myself.”

Thinking Men World Mind Humans Made Matter Wanted Moving Steps Summer Green Monsters Grass Burned Dimitri Always On My Mind

Author:Richelle Mead

“summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people. for those few months, you’re not required to be who everyone thinks you are, and that cut-grass smell in the air and the chance to dive into the deep end of a pool give you a courage you don’t have the rest of the year. you can be grateful and easy, with no eyes on you, and no past. summer just opens the door and lets you out.”

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