Bill Bowerman Quotes
Men of Oregon, I invite you to become students of your events. Running, one might say, is basically an absurd past-time upon which to be exhausting ourselves. But if you can find meaning, in the kind of running you have to do to stay on this team, chances are you will be able to find meaning in another absurd past-time: life.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.
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I like to keep my private life private.
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I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.
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Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.
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There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.
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Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration.
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I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.
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Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
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It seems that no two people came to this specialized area of work via the exact same route.
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Kabir Khan is a director who goes out of his way to make his actors comfortable. He's very chilled out. He makes the environment on set very casual and friendly.
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When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
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Every country has the right to determine its own laws. And India can't afford monopolies.
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You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.
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I don't want to argue with my wife about her car - or my driving.
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I would only take a role that I know I'm comfortable in and I can do. I've turned down plenty of things because I'd feel it's not me, and I wouldn't want to come on someone's project and flip that.
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Univision's close-to-50-year relationship with Hispanics makes us one of the leading media brands in this country and the gateway to connect with this consumer.
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I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.
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I think that I have very few personal gifts to bring to real politics.
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Scientists normally like to do experiments. You know, they like to mix this with that and see what happens. They like to take this thing and poke it and see how it reacts. In astronomy, we can't do that. The stars, the planets, the galaxies, are so far away that we just look at them, and we have to learn things by looking at them.
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Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.
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I think the American people can change Washington. But I think that it is not going to change, because somebody from on high directs that change.
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Men of Oregon, I invite you to become students of your events. Running, one might say, is basically an absurd past-time upon which to be exhausting ourselves. But if you can find meaning, in the kind of running you have to do to stay on this team, chances are you will be able to find meaning in another absurd past-time: life.
