Dean Karnazes Quotes
Running is a simple, primitive act, and therein lays its power. For it is one of the few commonalities left between us as a human race.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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I'm sure I frustrate the trainers - in fact, I know I frustrate the trainers to no end. But I think there's a very fine line. I listen to their advice. I take their medical expertise very seriously. But then I also, the reason I am where I am, the reason I play the way I play, is because I push beyond normal.
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Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.
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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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No one knows what the top-performing asset class will be next year. Lacking this prescience, your next-best solution is to own all of the classes and rebalance regularly.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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Even if your novel occurs in an unfamiliar setting in which all the customs and surroundings will seem strange to your reader, it's still better to start with action. The reason for this is simple. If the reader wanted an explanation of milieu, he would read nonfiction. He doesn't want information. He wants a story.
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Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
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Every game has to teach you how to walk, run, talk, use.
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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
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I am myself of a mixed background.
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When I was in South Africa, I was meeting with people who never heard of Lego bricks. And yet, when I was like, 'Here they are,' they immediately got it. They saw the appeal, were snapping bricks and creating their little creations right there immediately.
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Everything that I design I would wear myself.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.
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What an artist worries about as he plans his pictures, makes his sketches, or wonders whether he has completed his canvas, is something much more difficult to put into words. Perhaps he would say he worries about whether he has got it 'right'.
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The worst thing about all this staining power of the world is the way in which we come to think of it as inevitable. ... It is not true. ... Social life is lighted up with the lustre of the white, unstained robes of many a pure man or woman who walks through its very midst.
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I don't like to see animals in pain. That was very uncomfortable to me. I don't like factory farming. I'm not an advocate for the meat industry.
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Running is a simple, primitive act, and therein lays its power. For it is one of the few commonalities left between us as a human race.
