Steve Prefontaine (Steve Roland "Pre" Prefontaine) Quotes
A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.
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If you just kind of live a regular life and make good 'Hollywood' money, you have a certain freedom.
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I'm not a quitter. I believe in following things through.
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Thank you, Hollywood, for allowing me to be part of your group.
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I've always dreamed of having an album. The problem is that it's just very difficult to make an album nowadays because through technology, music shifts so fast, especially electronic music. Once you make five songs, the first one you did is already old and you wished you would have put it out right away. So that's kind of the difficult part.
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The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.
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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 think cricket is there in Usain Bolt's blood. Since I got to watch from close quarters, it was amazing to see him run up to bowl. The perfect delivery stride is understandable because he is a world champion athlete. But the manner - he loaded at the crease and then bowled the ball - left me zapped. He looked like a natural cricketer.
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There's not a fortune to be made doing voiceover work unless you're one of the main voices on The Simpsons. See, there's The Simpsons, and then there's everything else.
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When I became director of CIA, it was just clear to me intuitively, without a whole lot of science behind it, that we had expanded rapidly and inefficiently. So I arbitrarily picked a number, 10 percent, and I said over the next 12 months, we are going to reduce our reliance on contractors by 10 percent.
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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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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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You should have more time for you during all of your life - not when you're 65 and retired.
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And I said in underbreath -All our life is mixed with death, -And who knoweth which is best?And I smiled to think God's greatnessFlowed around our incompleteness, - Round our restlessness, His rest.
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I'm not a good storyteller - I much prefer to be with people who are chatty, to have the luxury of listening.
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I saturated myself with the improv community.
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I grew up with a concept of cinema as a directorial thing, meaning the director is allowed to sail the ship. Not a dictatorial thing.
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I was extremely aggressive from the start.
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I was not fighting myself at all as I used to.
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Secret Instructions for Reaching Xanadu: Go eastward from the Bewildered-Dragon Lake Until you see the Monastery of the West Tower straight and high above your head. Then take Those charms which, as I told you, in the breast Of your most inner robe you have hidden, and follow Their clear instruction.
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I actually wanted to be a forensic scientist for a while. When I was doing my Standard Grades, three of them were science subjects. The interest in science didn't wear off, but I found other interests.
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I want to be one of the greats. I want to be the pound for pound king and I know what it takes to get there.
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The well-meaning people who talk of education as if it were a substance distributable by coupon in large or small quantities never exhibit any understanding of the truth that you cannot teach anybody anything that he does not want to learn.
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A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.
