Frank Shorter Quotes
I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm dyslexic, and it takes me longer to memorize and to embody the character so I can really own it.
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It's more fun to look at an old picture of me than it is to look at a new one sometimes. Although, I still wear a dress pretty well.
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John Mayer and Jack Johnson are two of my all-time favorites. I love Colbie Caillat and really cool, beach-y, guitar, acoustic type music.
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The Lord discovered to me a sense of my unbelief that, though late, I should remember my transgressions and that I should be converted with my whole heart to the Lord my God.
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The guy who kind of identified as my dad was my dad's brother, who was the second person my mom married.
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There are still some terrible cliches in the presentation of Indian fiction. The lotus flower. The hennaed hands. In mainland Europe, people still slap these images on my books and I go bananas.
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The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
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It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.
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Arresting and detaining these dangerous people can make sense, at least until a final decision is reached on their deportation. However, such detention must always be subject to time limits and court review.
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We set up a small bitcoin and ethereum mining operation... that miraculously now is actually making a lot of money.
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It has long been apparent that many people in the media don't believe you're competent to make your own decisions.
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I date, don't get me wrong. I'm not up here filing my fingernails on a Friday night. I want to find someone to share my life with.
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Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
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The 'punch' of a truly weird tale is simply some violation or transcending of fixed cosmic law - an imaginative escape from palling reality - hence, phenomena rather than persons are the logical 'heroes.'
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As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed.
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I voted for Barack because he was black. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people - because they look like them... That's American politics, pure and simple.
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What I am is what I am. Are you what you are - or what?
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A person is a process, one that leads to death...
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Any street cop knows you will be sued or involved in some type of litigation throughout your career.
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Of course our genes will make some capacities very much easier to learn than others, and of course our genes themselves are not learned. But the point remains that genes themselves are not cognitive capacities, and that anything worth calling a cognitive capacity will depend to some degree on learning and so not be innate.
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I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in love with libraries, I was just a six-year-old boy. The library fueled all of my curiosities, from dinosaurs to ancient Egypt. When I graduated from high school in 1938, I began going to the library three nights a week. I did this every week for almost ten years and finally, in 1947, around the time I got married, I figured I was done. So I graduated from the library when I was twenty-seven. I discovered that the library is the real school.
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I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older.
