Sonja Henie quotes
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“Jewelry takes people's minds off your wrinkles.”
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“All my life I have wanted to skate, and all my life I have skated.”
-- Sonja HenieSource : Sonja Henie (1940). “Wings on my feet”
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“it's a feeling of ice miles running under your blades, the wind splitting open to let you through, the earth whirling around you at the touch of your toe, and speed lifting you off the ice far from all things that can hold you down.”
-- Sonja HenieSource : Sonja Henie (1940). “Wings on my feet”
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“I want to do with skates what Fred Astaire is doing with dancing.”
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“If you are not a skater, you probably can't imagine what I mean. I could try to tell you by saying it's a feeling of ice miles running under your blades, the wind splitting open to let you through, the earth whirling around you.It's a sense of power, of command over distance and gravity, and an illusion of no longer having to move because movement is carrying you.”
-- Sonja HenieSource : Sonja Henie (1940). “Wings on my feet”
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“The world never puts a price on you higher than the one you put on yourself.”
-- Sonja HenieSource : Sonja Henie (1940). “Wings on my feet”
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Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
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“The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.”
Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.64, Delphi Classics
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“Some temptations cannot be fought. One must close one's mind and fly from them”
Source : A.J Cronin (1942). “the Keys of the Kingdom”
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Source : Aaron Copland (1980). “Music and Imagination”, p.43, Harvard University Press
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