#petition

I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc. ↗

— Jeff Vandermeer

#always #decaying #etc #i #i always

I think there was a lot competition in the rock scene. ↗

— Jonathan Davis

#i #i think #lot #rock #scene

The time has come for the American government to recognize the damage that has occurred to our economy, and to take firm action to curtail what I believe is both unfair and illegal foreign competition. ↗

— Norm Dicks

#american #american government #believe #both #come

I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don't think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

#being #competitions #creative #creative writing #enter

People think the gold medal is yours and they say you're going to win - but they have no idea how hard it is. People aren't doing it negatively - they're mostly lovely and they really do want you to win - but they don't understand the difficulty and intensity of competition. ↗

— Jessica Ennis

#difficulty #doing #going #gold #gold medal

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#cannot #control #impresses #master #our

But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world. ↗

— John Thorn

#back #baseball #birth #booming #both

There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember seeing on television was the 1968 Olympics when Peggy Fleming won. ↗

— Dorothy Hamill

#competitions #ever #first #fleming #i

The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us. ↗

— John Williams

#between #competition #cooperation #countries #healthy

Competition is the death of art. ↗

— Dana Gould

#competition #death #keep-it-crispy #pete-holmes #weird