After the 2012 Olympics, I returned to training, but unlike in previous years, my off-season weight gain didn't melt off as soon as I got back to my routine. I was tired, and my clothes weren't fitting. I'd been diagnosed with hypothyroidism, which means my thyroid is underactive, and that slows my metabolism.
We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq.
The tax rate of 35 percent is impossible to provide an incentive to the large corporations, that have $1.7 trillion offshore, to put their money back in the United States.
Now, I'm back to my old ways: Needing to be the leader, needing to score.
If we're not on them, they go back to their old ways.
I used to do a lot of casual photography - back in the olden times when one used film - but it had fallen by the wayside over the years.
Older men in my family - back to my grandpa - were basically completely bald.
It feels really good to give back. I'm opening the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness Centre in Australia.
Going back in time, the best sportsmen ever have been Olympians.
Even though I've won numerous titles and an Olympic gold medal, there are still so many faults in my performance that I can honestly hardly bear to watch the videos back.
An Olympic medal won't define my whole life, although it might look like it to onlookers. When I look back, I should have been able to get an Olympic medal.
If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.
A lot of '2112' was written in the back seat of a car and in cold dressing rooms while on tour in northern Ontario.
You listen to Handel operas, right? And there are a thousand of them, right? And they all sound alike. If I look back on my work, maybe it's the same thing.
I don't need politicians doing a 24-hour prayer with Oral Roberts to get our country back on track.
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
When I write a tune - and it's been like this for many years - I always hear in the back of my head some sort of vague, orchestrated, fully fleshed-out big-band version of the song with other parts going on.
I was on this bridge overlooking the carpet... I think it went all the way back to Oregon.
Well, let's go back to the original intent of Social Security. It is an insurance contract.
There is no question that what we are seeing - the horrible advance of ISIS - goes back, if you will, to the original sin of the invasion of Iraq.
