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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I'm not a quitter. I believe in following things through.
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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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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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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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When I run barefoot, I put my shoes on my hands. Running around with shoe-hands looks a little weird.
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If you can't love who you are now, you can't get to the place you want to be.
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I read in the papers how much I'm earning and fall about laughing because I'm sure it's not that much; otherwise, I'd have an enormous boat. I'm literally not the slightest bit interested in money. I just don't pay any attention to money; it's rather vulgar.
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When I was going to Paris for Paris Fashion Week, I'd often walk down the street and go into all the different shops that we didn't necessarily have in the U.K., and Maje was definitely one of the ones that stood out for me.
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I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.
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Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
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Von Neumann languages do not have useful properties for reasoning about programs. Axiomatic and denotational semantics are precise tools for describing and understanding conventional programs, but they only talk about them and cannot alter their ungainly properties. Unlike von Neumann languages, the language of ordinary algebra is suitable both for stating its laws and for transforming an equation into its solution, all within the "language."
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I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.
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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.
