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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You need to be able to sit down and talk to your children.
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I love 'Downton Abbey.'
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There is nothing I can do to ever make up for that kick, ... But that happened. I take responsibility for that. In the future there are going to be opportunities, and I look forward to that.
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It was my wish since I was a child to become something, to be able to stand on my own two feet, to do something for myself.
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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.