Steve Prefontaine (Steve Roland "Pre" Prefontaine) Quotes
A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.
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There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
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I'm not a quitter. I believe in following things through.
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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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I knew she was from Australia and I knew that is where she started but I didn't know if she was still popular there. I hope people understand we aren't making fun of Kylie.
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How can the cost of education be the cost of life? It is unacceptable; it is reprehensible that we have allowed it to fester.
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I was excited to get the opportunity to sing something in a movie 'cause I love musicals and I would love to be able to do more movie musicals, in the future.
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I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.
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I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.
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Anyone who tells you they don't need to rewrite, they're usually the ones who need it worst.
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Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.
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Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.
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The universe, when you leave it alone, is going to be beautiful.
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Science can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design and moving in practice.
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Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so.
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Like everybody, I've had a lot of pain in my life and I'm a work in progress. You must have a true desire to see the world from a different point of view, and that comes with growing up.
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I happen to be a guy who also plays the piano and sings, so people automatically associate me with Billy Joel.
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I'm sure at some point I will get back into coaching, but right now I need to focus completely on my kids.
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Many of the Central Asians know Russian, and Ted Levin speaks it fluently. I speak Chinese, but Mongolian is completely different, so we had to have translators.
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When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.
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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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It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.
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I cannot forecast the race (Daytona) will go well and therefore right after the race will say 'Alex let's do Le Mans, come on let's get that together,' it is not that important to me, but if I can why shouldn't I? It is as simple as that.
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We are pretty good. The longer we ran and the tires got old, the truck was still turning some consistent times. I think we are going to race very well. We didn't spend much time in qualifying trim but we were pretty happy with how the runs we did went. I am looking forward to qualifying and then tomorrow's race.
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A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.
