Christopher McDougall Quotes
The 'Tarahumara' use their legs 'as designed.' By running at a young age with minimal footwear, they naturally develop the best biomechanical use of their legs. Cushioned shoes restrict foot movements and allow for over-striding. Short strides are natural.
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Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.
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As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.
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While make-up helps to enhance one's features, too much of it tends to hide a person's features.
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Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.
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I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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The Federal Reserve is incapable of accomplishing its stated objectives.
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The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
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Most of my songs start out as being very aggressive and guitar-driven.
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I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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He is very upbeat but we hear that all the time from just about any athlete.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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I have experienced a murderer among my friends. Many, many years ago. At close range I have seen the impact of it. I knew the victim, I went to the funeral, I have been to the house, to the specific room where the killing took place, and I was stunned by it. It's such a blow.
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I think many people are finding things I do very funny and strange.
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My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
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Trouble is said to be good for an artist's soul but almost never is.
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One of the things I realised as I learned to manage a rehearsal room is that the best idea always has to win, and it doesn't matter where the idea comes from.
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I hate the word practice. Practice breeds inurement. Instead of discovering, of distinguishing traits that are deeply hidden or merely veiled, one ends seeing nothing anymore. One ceases to be aware.
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Few people think about politics every day. But they are in the market every day.
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The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief. And by dangerous I don't mean thought-provoking. I mean: might get people killed.
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The 'Tarahumara' use their legs 'as designed.' By running at a young age with minimal footwear, they naturally develop the best biomechanical use of their legs. Cushioned shoes restrict foot movements and allow for over-striding. Short strides are natural.
