Bode Miller Quotes
I've been exploring different options for when I'm done skiing. I have the Turtle Ridge Foundation, which is helping a bunch of worthy causes around the Northeast. I've also started SkiSpace, which is an online social network that basically deals with all things based around any snow sport.
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Golf was never a religion to me.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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An indictment of entitlements has to focus on the huge 'social wealth' that the welfare state creates at the stroke of the pen. Yet statistical tests of the effects of welfare spending on employment yield erratic results.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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Virtual reality is a tough sell for a software developer. They have to convince investors that not only are they going to build a good game, which is what they normally have to do, they have to convince them that it's going to be a good game and that virtual reality will be successful.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.
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Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution.
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C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.
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Times have been tough, the economy has been tough. But I want to bring forward a fantastic manifesto for taking the city forwards.
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I was part of the sort of avant guard tradition of John Cage and music concrete and pushing back the boundaries of avant garde classic pop rhythms. I think everyone brings something completely different to it.
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A reputation takes years and years and years to build, and it takes one press of a button to ruin it. Don't let that happen to you. You've done so much work; you've put in so much effort. Don't let one moment ruin your entire life because you wanted to be funny or you were mad or because you had a mood.
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I guarantee, that if I am elected, I will take over the White House, hang out, shoot pool, scratch my ass, and not do a damn thing . . . Which is to say, if you want something done, don't come to me to do it for you; you got to get together and figure out how to do it yourselves. Is that a deal?
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I've been exploring different options for when I'm done skiing. I have the Turtle Ridge Foundation, which is helping a bunch of worthy causes around the Northeast. I've also started SkiSpace, which is an online social network that basically deals with all things based around any snow sport.
