Bill Bowerman Quotes
If at the end of a race you know yourself that you have done your best, you're a winner.
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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I happen to be quite fond of staying out late and sleeping the day away.
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As chief elections officer, it's my job to protect the integrity of the ballot.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.
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Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story.
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Ice shelves in general have episodic carvings and there can be large icebergs breaking off - I'm talking 100km or 200km long - every 10 or 20 or 50 years.
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I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.
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To be the outsider is actually a great thing in England.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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It seems to me an indictment of the Republican Party that if you talk about issues of poverty and upward mobility, people assume you're a Democrat.
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I put 'Ghost' online hoping to make a couple hundred bucks, but then the next day, I took meetings with five different record companies.
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I always tell friends you can't judge your success by someone else's. You can't be afraid to fail.
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In Toledo, people grow out. Out to the suburbs. Out to the parts of America where the economy is more vigorous. And all too often, out to 48-inch waistbands.
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I need to be looked after. I'm not talking about diamond rings and nice restaurants and fancy stuff – in fact, that makes me uncomfortable. I didn't grow up with it, and it's not me, you know. But I need someone to say to me, 'Shall I run you a bath?' or 'Let's go to the pub, just us.'
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I feel a particular sense of responsibility when you're taking something from the magazine directly and putting it in video. You can't be too flat. You need to have personality. You can't just scream out to the viewer. You need to have a fresh take on something or have a new look or have an interesting style, or be so raw that it resonates and is authentic. I think authentic is a good word. It's overused, I know, but I think it comes across in the video medium. If you can make a video authentic, it comes across.
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Believe me - I've done very good stuff and very crazy stuff, and I don't regret the crazy stuff.
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Seduced her? Every time I turned round she was up a library ladder. In the end I gave in. That reminds me—I spotted something between her legs that made me think of you.
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I don't think anyone really knows the purpose of their existence.
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If at the end of a race you know yourself that you have done your best, you're a winner.
