Lil Wayne
Rapper, Musician
"I am probably in the sky, flying with the fish, or maybe in the ocean, swimming with the pigeons. See, my world is different."
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Swimming
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Franz Kafka
Writer
"The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things."
Don Johnson
Actor, Producer
"I'm just a simple guy swimming in a sea of sharks."
Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"Some people give their problems swimming lessons instead of drowning them."
Missy Franklin
Swimmer
"A huge part of swimming for me is I love it, and it is so much fun."
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"Marijuana has killed far fewer people than swimming pools; it’s the war against it that does all the violence."
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"I have big friends who won't go swimming because they're too embarrassed about it. I feel that's such a shame, because actually people should be encouraging fat people who are exercising to do it, not pointing and laughing."
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"I told myself there was no way I was going to let this training go to waste. It was my time, and I was ready to go."
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"Well, me don't swim too tough so me don't go in the water too deep."
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"The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter."
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"Wins and losses come a dime a dozen. But effort? Nobody can judge effort. Effort is between you and you. Effort ain't got nothing to do with nobody else."
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"All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath."
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"I want to get up in the morning and just roll over in my bed into an indoor swimming pool. And then swim to the breakfast table."
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"He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that."
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"If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile."
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"I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools."
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"There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink."
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"If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you."
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"Millions of Americans each year use our national forests to go hiking, fishing, hunting, camping, swimming, horseback riding, and canoeing."
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"I believe that the totemic image for the future is the octopus. This is because the squids and octopi have perfected a form of communication that is both psychedelic and telepathic; a model for the human communications of the future. In the not-too-distant future men and women may shed the monkey body to become virtual octopi swimming in a silicon sea."
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"I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming."
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"Focusing is about saying No."
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"'m starting to get a swimming physique, which I'm very pleased about, because for me that's the most appealing male physique. It's not show-y off-y Mr Muscle, "Look how much I can bench." It's just a real lean, athletic figure and it doesn't look like you try too hard. When you see people who have huge biceps, it looks like they're in the gym all day. But I think there's a difference between looking muscly and being fit."
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"Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do."
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"Some people dream of having a big swimming pool. With me, it’s closets"
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