Steve Prefontaine (Steve Roland "Pre" Prefontaine) Quotes
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The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting just as an avalanche victim has learned a lot about snow.
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Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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I am going to keep having fun every day I have left, because there is no other way of life. You just have to decide whether you are a Tigger or an Eeyore.
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My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.
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I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
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We really love to learn and explore things.
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I haven't chosen any party yet because people choose parties when they get older. When it's time, I'll look, and if I can't find one to join, I'll make another party.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.
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Every city has a Donald Trump; ours is just the Trumpiest.
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Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.
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The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.
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Kids are very cruel to each other.
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We know the fans love us to death, and the people that hear out music love our music.
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Country fans and country listeners deserve to have something better... a song that really has something to say, something that makes you feel something.
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A lot of people tell me I have to trash-talk more, but I got here with my fists, fighting, not with my mouth.
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Perhaps people, and kids especially, are spoiled today, because all the kids today have cars, it seems. When I was young you were lucky to have a bike.
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To hell with love of country - I compete for myself.
