Don Kardong Quotes
In those long, lonely miles you put in during the off-season, and in those knife-in-the-gut track repetitions and hill repeats that buckle your knees - at that moment in almost every race when you ask yourself how much you're willing to hurt to catch one more runner - you can draw strength and inspiration from your running mates.
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I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.
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The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power.
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I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.
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I don't believe in miracles.
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Personal shoppers in big department stores are seriously under-used.
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Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.
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No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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If a company knows it may have to pay a large amount of money if it poses an unreasonable threat to others, it will have a strong incentive to act better.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.
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For me, I've always wanted to be a nun. I mean, I think about what it's like to be a nun. And I've always been fascinated with nuns, and I have a nun collection, I've been collecting nuns for 20 years. And I have a song that I wrote, 'I Wanna Be a Nun,' when I was 25.
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I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community - the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could never write a novel set in a big city, because, frankly, I don't know what it would be like.
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When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.
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Going out for a meal, especially for young urbanites, is less about socialising over enjoyable food than about enjoying food as a way to socialise.
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Antwerp literally was a trash hole, but fashion changed that. The designers there were extreme, and their work was hard to understand. But now, people from all over the world come to Antwerp to shop.
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I've been told by journalists that Facebook is upset anytime we're mentioned.
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Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, preparing each sheet in anticipation of reaching the perfect print.
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Just because someone has fancy sneakers doesn't mean they can run faster.
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All training is negotiation, whether you're training dogs or spouses.
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I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children.
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But when one believes in the reality of things, making them visible by artificial means is not quite the same as feeling that they are close at hand.
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Thank God I'm with the love of my life. That's why I know I'm right where I'm supposed to be.
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In those long, lonely miles you put in during the off-season, and in those knife-in-the-gut track repetitions and hill repeats that buckle your knees - at that moment in almost every race when you ask yourself how much you're willing to hurt to catch one more runner - you can draw strength and inspiration from your running mates.
