Bode Miller Quotes
One kid's old, used-up equipment is another kid's brand-new, awesome, awesome equipment.
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I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.
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Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.
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The conclusion that I have come to is that actually, no religion, whether it's Islam, Christianity or any idea based on scripture or texts, is a religion of 'anything,' really.
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When people arrive at El Bulli, everybody goes through the kitchen. It's a way of making them feel at home. When they leave, the only thing I ask is whether they've been happy. Everything in between, I don't particularly care.
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Work is the thing that happens around the game time.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places?
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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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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Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
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When you look at someone good like J.J. Abrams who gives you the spectacle and great action set pieces but also gives you character and great story and plotting and narrative, I think it's my job - and my intention - to do both.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
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I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
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One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
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We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.
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My opinion can be completely different after a show.
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I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.
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I had always had an affinity for series in literature, and I thought it would be really cool to incorporate what I loved about books into the story of music, to pile it together.
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I'm not funny in person. I mean I'm really not. I'm one of those people who always screw up anecdotes.
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I have fond memories from growing up in Switzerland and drinking a glass of warm milk with a spoonful of honey before bed.
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Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.
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One kid's old, used-up equipment is another kid's brand-new, awesome, awesome equipment.
