Pool Quotes - Page 5

• People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they be said to be interacting, rather they are participating in this pool of common meaning which is capable of constant development and change.

  David Bohm

  People, Development, Common

  David Bohm (2006). “Unfolding Meaning: A Weekend of Dialogue with David Bohm”, p.175, Routledge

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• I swam at school a lot. Long-distance swimming in pools, and diving, then when we moved to Hastings when I was 13 I used to swim in the sea all the time; I loved it out of season and when it was rough.

  Jo Brand

  Distance, School, Swimming

  "Jo Brand: 'National treasure? I'd rather maintain a taint of national disgrace'". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2011.

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• It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that's how I kept track of what was going on.

  Barbara Bush

  Track, Car, Knows

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• In 1980, business at my company, Chuck E. Cheese's, was thriving and I was feeling flush. So I bought a very large house on the Champ de Mars in Paris, right between the Eiffel Tower and the Ecole Militaire. The home was quite amazing: At six stories, it spanned 15,000 square feet and featured marble staircases and a swimming pool in the basement.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Home, Swimming, Squares

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• What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.

  Harlan Coben

  Book, Writing, People

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• Quite a few people have commented during the campaign that more help is required for small businesses. SMEs need support and encouragement in their early stages, and in Cambridge the links to the University and the huge pool of expertise here helps that.

  Anne Campbell

  Encouragement, People, Support

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• I don't want to sit around by the pool luxuriating with a margarita. That's just not what I want to do.

  Nicolas Cage

  Want, Margarita

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• Writing used to be my hobby, but now that it's my job, I have no hobby - except watching TV and laying around the pool reading 'U.S. Weekly.' I have tried many hobbies, such as knitting, Pilates, ballet, yoga, and guitar, but none of them have taken.

  Meg Cabot

  Jobs, Yoga, Taken

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• Often there's a BA crew, because half the time we stay at the same hotels, especially in Australia. I can remember spending quite a lot of time with crews around the pool there. They always make themselves known to us.

  Phil Collins

  Australia, Half, Remember

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• I think a lot of people have a vision of L.A. in which TV executives and movie directors plan their latest productions by the swimming pool.

  Bruno Tonioli

  Swimming, Thinking, People

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• Some of the money from the senior players goes to helping out the younger kids. It is from the players' pool, the fines for being late and so on. Some will go to something like the tsunami appeal and some to helping out young players.

  John Terry

  Senior, Kids, Player

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• If there's a pool I love to hangout there and layout and get some sun. If I can ever find a second to get some sun, some Vitamin D, I will do so.

  Haley Reinhart

  Vitamin D, Sun, Vitamins

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• I won't swim in a pool by myself, because I think that somehow a little magic door is going to open up and let a shark out.

  Christina Ricci

  Thinking, Doors, Sharks

  "Wolf Files: Celebrity Phobias" by Buck N.Wolf, abcnews.go.com. December 16, 2003.

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• The swan in the pool is singing, And up and down doth he steer, And, singing gently ever, Dips under the water clear.

  Heinrich Heine

  Swans, Water, Singing

  Heinrich Heine (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Heinrich Heine (Illustrated)”, p.159, Delphi Classics

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• These days, right now, these are the good old days. I've always approached it that way. That's why I'm still working. I'm not the guy who is ready to sit by the pool.

  Richard D. Zanuck

  Guy, Way, These Days

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• If I were in the President's place, I would not get a chance to resign. I would be lying in a pool of my own blood
  hearing Mrs. Armey, standing over me, saying, 'How do I reload this damn thing?'

  Dick Armey

  Lying, Blood, President

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• Most people exist in very clouded states of mind. It's sort of like when you're underwater in a big swimming pool and you open your eyes, and you can't see very far and everything is distorted.

  Frederick Lenz

  Eye, Swimming, People

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• The massive quantities of radiation that would be released in a war fought with nuclear weapons might, over time, cause such great changes in the human gene pool that following generations might not be recognizable as human beings.

  Helen Caldicott

  War, Would Be, Generations

  Helen Caldicott (1980). “Nuclear madness: what you can do”

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• There are 350 varieties of shark, not counting loan and pool.

  L. M. Boyd

  Animal, Sharks, Loan

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• People say to me, 'You're so lucky. You get to see the world.' But I don't. I go to the hotel and to the pools and back again. That's it.

  Michael Phelps

  People, Lucky, World

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• A writer from ESPN magazine once described me as the world's largest eleven-year-old. That's true. I ride my Sea-Doo jet ski, play putt-putt golf, go to water parks, and act silly. On the bottom floor of my house in Beverly Hills, I have video games, a pool table, a Pepsi machine, and all the things they have in arcades. I drive go-karts, at least the ones I can fit in. I karate-chop my friends when they come over, like the Kato dude in the Pink Panther movies.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Silly, Golf

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• On one level, nothing's really changed in my life. I still drive my daughter in the car pool on Monday. But it's impossible not to be aware of this rush of attention; it's impossible not to be seduced by it once you've entered into it, seduced by being unhappy when the attention wanes.

  Michael Tolkin

  Daughter, Monday, Car

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• If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.

  Yunjin Kim

  Nice, People, Swim

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• The new Squarepusher album as well, although it is proper headf*** industrial. Not one for a pool party in Ibiza!

  Ralph Lawson

  Party, Ibiza, Albums

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• I think the world's a little smaller these days. With the Internet and the availability of people, the pool of English speaking actors - not just American actors, but Brits, Australians, New Zealanders, Irish. We're all up for grabs.

  Sonya Walger

  Thinking, Availability, People

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