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 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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'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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There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.
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I had saved a lot of money working at Mrs. Fields' Chocolate Chip Cookies, ushering at the Golden Gate Theatre, and doing odd jobs so I could live in New York for a few months. If it ran out, I would have to give up and go home. It turned out OK. I got my Equity card and started working.
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Talk to people no one else is talking to. Who would have thought that giving a speech at a funeral at age 12 would introduce me to a man who would introduce me to my first business contact who would introduce me to several other important people in my life. That's luck. That's randomness.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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The most important advice I can offer is that writing is a craft that you can learn by practicing. If you keep writing, you will improve.
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I felt unworthy to play Jesus. I just accepted the responsibility and said, 'What actor wouldn't want to play this role?'
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Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed, then our unhealed places are forced to the surface.
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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.
