Don Kardong Quotes
New nemeses keep racing fresh, but I also find challenge in going longer, with only the distance as foe. I run my first 50-mile race, journey across the Grand Canyon and back, circumnavigate Mount St. Helens.
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I would not drink bottles of water at my mom's house because I never knew how long she'd been refilling them from the sink and putting them back in the refrigerator.
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I think if we understand better the impact of war on women and children, we might be more careful about the wars we start.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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Marriage is a definite no-no. I am totally married to my company. Emotionally, my mother fills up the void in my life. So there it is. My company is a spouse I will never cheat on, and my mother completes me as a son. I think I have a full family unit of my own.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.
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I can say with a level of confidence that Islam is not a religion of war, only because the majority of Muslims don't subscribe to that perspective, not because there's something inherent in the text that tells me it's a religion of peace.
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He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
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Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.
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It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.
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Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.
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I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.
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I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur, and if I'm ever in a public place, I automatically find myself listening.
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Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
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I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.
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I feel like an independent man, and I am. This is the kind of feeling I always wanted. You can rarely get that... Well, I could rarely get that in the early part of my life.
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We must be afraid of neither poverty nor exile nor imprisonment; of fear itself only should we be afraid.
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When it comes to age, I just feel like puberty is, like, the most horrible time of anyone's life.
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How to prevail over that which you refuse to acknowledge the existence of.
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John was sick of having little girls in pink dresses who were just trying their best. He would try to create controversy. It was not always good for me, but it was fun for him.
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New nemeses keep racing fresh, but I also find challenge in going longer, with only the distance as foe. I run my first 50-mile race, journey across the Grand Canyon and back, circumnavigate Mount St. Helens.
