Don Kardong Quotes
I've never owned an actual trail-running shoe myself, but maybe I should. My favorite paths are fraught with peril, much of it skulking at shoelace level. A rock, a root, an errant pine cone. Wham, and you're down, choking in dust and picking pebbles from wounds in your forearms and knees.
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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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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Can I eventually take classes and eliminate my accent? Sure. I guess anybody could. But this is who I am, and this is what I got. And there are millions of people who sound just like me. Millions. It's not like this is some novelty.
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.
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Some of the most amazing people I've met in life are cops.
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I want to see Brian Williams with no irony wearing a mustache.
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The first song I wrote was called 'Here I Go Falling In Love' I wrote it in the sixth grade.
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I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of people's lives.
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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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To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.
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We're trying to make money, trying to add a zero onto our net worth.
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A house is kind of scary.
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I cannot sing Vampirella artist Patrick Berkenkotter's praises loudly or often enough.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't.
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The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
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When I think of the person that I thought was Bill Clinton, I think he had genuine remorse. When I think of the person that I now see is 100 percent politician, I think he's sorry he got caught.
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Philosophy leaps ahead on tiny toeholds; hope and intuition lend wings to its feet. Calculating reason lumbers heavily behind, looking for better footholds, for reason too wants to reach that alluring goal which its divine comrade has long since reached.
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I've never owned an actual trail-running shoe myself, but maybe I should. My favorite paths are fraught with peril, much of it skulking at shoelace level. A rock, a root, an errant pine cone. Wham, and you're down, choking in dust and picking pebbles from wounds in your forearms and knees.
