Dean Karnazes Quotes

If you just go out there and run 100 miles, it breaks down a lot of barriers in terms of self-imposed limitations.

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• Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.

  

  Kate Chopin
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• I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
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• My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
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• We seem, as a culture, to start to adhere to these antiheroes and have grown tired of the traditional, straight-up-and-down good guy.

  

  Gabriel Luna
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• But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.

  

  Randy Newman
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• There are times that you have a plot in your head, but then you find that the characters don't want to do that. When you're looking at the story from the outside, you can create whatever twists and turns you want. But when you're writing, you're inside the characters' heads, and you see that they may be motivated to do something different.

  

  Ramez Naam
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• When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.

  

  Jack Miller
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• The entire NBA knew in 2010 that the best player in the world could be a free agent in 2014. We weren't the only team positioning ourselves for the summer of 2014.

  

  Dan Gilbert
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• I didn't wake up and decide to become an activist. But you couldn't help notice the inequities, the injustices. It was all around you.

  

  Yuri Kochiyama
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• I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things.

  

  Dane Cook
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• Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  

  Carl Jung
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• I feel it's tougher for the guys, because if I break up with them, then they can go on and be forced to watch me on TV every day. I don't see them.

  

  Tamron Hall
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• Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accept the subordination which Booker T. Washington had preached.

  

  C. L. R. James
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• Don't do that... By the way, this is not Oprah furniture; you jump on this, and it will be firewood... Oprah's got the real thing, this stuff...this is about as real as that points to cityscape backdrop right there.

  

  Craig Ferguson
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• 'Why do I love him so much, mamma? Why do I feel so sorry for him?' she went on in a quivering voice, and her eyes glistened with tears. 'Who is he? What is he like? As light as a little feather, as a little crumb, but I love him; I love him like a real person. Here he can do nothing, he can't talk, and yet I know what he wants with his little eyes.'

  

  Anton Chekhov
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• I've had so many things, good and bad, said about me. I'm way beyond worrying about what people say.

  

  Clare Balding
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• The SFPD has had a lot of issues, and I think one of the issues that needs to be addressed is the racist text messages that have been passed back and forth between PD members, not only talking about the community, but also talking about colleagues that work in the same department as them.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
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• I love food, and I love carbs: Pasta, rice - that's my thing.

  

  Karen Fukuhara
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• Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

  

  Erma Bombeck
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• I don't really have any interest in allowing other people's kind of idiotic, unnecessary, either bigotry or hatred or whatever derision they have for me, I don't allow for it to really bother me, because I don't need it.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
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• For me, when I start a novel, I only have a general sense of what I am going to do - usually three or four big scenes or something to which I can really respond emotionally.

  

  Patrick Ness
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• In the developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy, a poverty of spirit, of loneliness, of lack of love. There is no greater sickness in the world today than that one.

  

  Mother Teresa
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• If you just go out there and run 100 miles, it breaks down a lot of barriers in terms of self-imposed limitations.

  

  Dean Karnazes