Dean Karnazes Quotes
I have an ElliptiGO. It's a standup bicycle. You don't pedal; you stride on it. It allows me to have the same striding motion as running without the impact.
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
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I always wanted to do creative things, but I was really interested in entrepreneurship. My family comes from a very entrepreneurial culture, so business was always something I was interested in.
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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I'm not going to tell the Palestinians how to arrange themselves. If they want to have their own entity and their own parliament as they do today, that's fine. If they want to connect to Jordan, which has a very big Palestinian population, and vote in the Jordanian government, that's fine.
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I would rather be on the set than doing anything.
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People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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All I wanted to do was be a working actor.
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I've never fabricated or plagiarized anything.
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I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.
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Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.
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Russia and China completely disagree with the international order that was established after World War II, and they're trying to take it apart right before our eyes.
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On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes.
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There are artists who think they have to be on top all the time. I think that would be exhausting.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.
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You always have that danger when you do a pilot of getting this gigantic chunk of change, and all of a sudden you're like, 'It's going to run forever, and I'm buying a house in the Hollywood Hills.'
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I would say I'm a nice person, and I take pride in the fact that I treat everyone really well, so there's no reason for anyone to ever come at me because I only want the best for everybody else.
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With my fiction, I focused on chapters and overall conceptions, while in poetry, I crawled along in the trenches of each sentence, examining every word for a sign of a deeper significance.
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We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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I've got an awful memory, and I can't read or write, but you can read me a script once or twice, and I've got it.
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I have an ElliptiGO. It's a standup bicycle. You don't pedal; you stride on it. It allows me to have the same striding motion as running without the impact.
