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I think there's going to be pressure on all the British athletes. It's a home Olympics at the end of the day. I like adrenaline, that's something I feed off. I'm just going to go out there and do my best. ↗

— Jessica Ennis

#athletes #best #british #day #end

Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, "A house guest," you're wrong because I have just described my kids. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#because #call #clean #described #dishes

My idea of beauty is somebody that doesn't have to try too much, someone who is effortless and fresh. ↗

— Jessica Ennis

#effortless #fresh #idea #much #somebody

One minute you're a developing athlete trying to get to the top, then the next minute you do well and win a medal somewhere, and then it's all foisted on you. You never know when it's going to happen. You don't think about the media side of things when you're a young athlete trying to do well. ↗

— Jessica Ennis

#athlete #developing #get #going #happen

Things have changed so much, with Facebook and Twitter. Everyone is so much more accessible these days: no British athlete has ever experienced what we are experiencing now. It's such a unique situation with the home Olympics. ↗

— Jessica Ennis

#athlete #british #changed #days #ever

He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within. ↗

— Quintus Ennius

#constant #freedom #hath #heart #whoso

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work. ↗

— Brian Eno

#basis #brain #computer #decisions #does

Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too. ↗

— Brian Eno

#commonplace #earth #easiest #easiest thing #editing

Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they're transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them. ↗

— Brian Eno

#always #come #everybody #import #job

For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before. ↗

— Brian Eno

#before #called #combination #established #fairly