Mary Pilon Quotes
For professional athletes, the motives for cheating generally are more obvious: money, fame, and often a low likelihood of being caught. But why would a middle- or back-of-the-pack runner lie or cheat in a race that doesn't even matter?
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When people tell really good stories in songs, I really like it.
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I ran for Congress in 2012 because I had had enough. Enough of career politicians, enough of political gamesmanship, and enough of the lack of leadership in Washington.
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I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast - which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others - then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.
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Being away from home for six months of the year and seeing your kids grow up on Skype all that time - I think I saw Molly walk for the first time on Skype. That's not good.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.
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I'm good at utilising body parts as letters.
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Ultimately love is everything.
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If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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You look at a guy like Lance Armstrong, and you have to be inspired. I sat next to Kirk Douglas the other day, and he's inspiring for fighting through his stroke.
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There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.
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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
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While I feel it's important for films to examine our society, I don't particularly like watching the films that do it.
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Americans cannot afford to turn a blind eye to Russian interference in our democracy. We need to get to the facts and learn lessons to prevent future misconduct by foreign governments.
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The motivation for making movies is that people actually see them.
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I want to die at my desk.
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Telomeres are the protective caps at the ends of chromosomes in cells. Chromosomes carry the genetic information. Telomeres are buffers. They are like the tips of shoelaces. If you lose the tips, the ends start fraying.
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I'd rather be a good person off the field than a good baseball player on the field.
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There's nobody as sexy as Robinson Cano in the box. I had a coach, Chris Sheff, who always told me to be as sexy as you can in the box.
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I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it.
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For professional athletes, the motives for cheating generally are more obvious: money, fame, and often a low likelihood of being caught. But why would a middle- or back-of-the-pack runner lie or cheat in a race that doesn't even matter?
