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 am happy to donate funds to various organizations that help people in need.
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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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Pornography incarnates male supremacy. It is the DNA of male dominance. Every rule of sexual abuse, every nuance of sexual sadism, every highway and byway of sexual exploitation, is encoded in it.
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One of my major competitors was Harold Smith. Smith beat me in 1977. I was loafing during that competition.
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Education is a self-organizing system, where learning is an emergent phenomenon.
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Plays are the marathon of scriptwriting. You fix on a point somewhere in the middle distance, and you start running, and you don't stop until you get to the end. The theory is that you have something you cannot not say: this is the engine that propels you through to the last page.
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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.
