Bill Bowerman Quotes
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.
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When a pointed question is beaten back with an attack or threat of, 'How dare you...' it's a reliable signal that deception is involved. Trump is a master at this.
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My kitchen looks like the one from my childhood - very homey, with a little bit of Alice in Wonderland!
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When you're fighting with a stunt person, your intent is to miss.
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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
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I have been celibate for about six or seven months, I think. I would rather just make out and kiss someone instead of sex. I'm single. I said I would be single for a year and I am.
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People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.
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I love working in Canada. The ovation is great. It makes me feel like I'm the top dog.
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If my parents ever had to ground me, they didn't really know what that would mean, because I was inside most of the time anyway.
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I would never do 'Stardust Memories' because I don't particularly like that kind of movie - that would be why I wouldn't do that.
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It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people.
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Jasmine is just the most delicate and beautiful scent.
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With all due respect to the people who made the motorcycle movies during the '60s, I felt the sophistication level could be a bit higher, and I felt I could raise the bar on that, too.
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All I really want to do is plays - and that's a New York thing.
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I find comedy to be really scary, because it can go so wrong so easily, and the margin for error is so huge - and I guess that's what makes it funny, that tension.
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I think chicken and horse meat are ideal food because it's very easy to digest.
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It's really crazy to be 36 years old and to have been doing something for 25 years.
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It is in Toyota's DNA that mistakes made once will not be repeated.
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I do Athlete Devotion throughout all my fight camps. I am a Christian, so I fight with God first, and I have my devotions with me everywhere I go.
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All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, a scientist, an artist, or an entrepreneur. In service of their goals, they lay down time, energy and many other choices and pleasures; in return, they become most truly themselves. A false destiny may be spotted by the fact that it consumes without transforming, without giving back the enlarged self.
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For sure it's better to have a coach. I won't lie to you. It's better to have someone to help you. I need it, you know. But as I say all the time, it's not easy to feel someone. That person has to be - has to be, for me, like good, first of all, but has to be hard and also understand my personality.
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The athlete makes himself, the coach doesn't make the athlete.
