Steve Prefontaine (Steve Roland "Pre" Prefontaine) Quotes
If the Olympics come around, and I'm in shape, then I'll compete. But I won't be representing the United States; I'll be representing myself.
Steve Prefontaine
Quotes to Explore
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Like Hillary Clinton, I, too, have traveled hundreds of thousands of miles around the globe. But unlike Mrs. Clinton, I know that flying is an activity, not an accomplishment.
Carly Fiorina
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I like the idea of acting. Of all these things I've done, sometimes I think I've done well, and sometimes I think I didn't do well, but they are more cameos, and I come in and be crazy.
Flea
Red Hot Chili Peppers
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There were many times when I had to emotionally come to terms with the fact that maybe I wasn't ever going to get married. And I started getting comfortable with that.
Salma Hayek
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There's a great danger in making this seem more important than it is, this whole Free Cinema thing.
Karel Reisz
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It is a big responsibility to headline on pay-per-view.
Canelo Alvarez
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I feel music is another kind of literature.
Kevin Young
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I feel real ownership in this show. I feel very invested in it. I care very much about it. I don't feel any more like a hired hand, you know? It's a strange feeling - I feel personally responsible for how the story goes. What happens. What the weaknesses are. And so in a way, some of the changes gave me an opportunity to have a voice in a different way.
Lauren Graham
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Everything isn't starting out well, but you have to look at it like we can turn it around.
Allen Iverson
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I don't know if I'll ever get used to the idea that strangers know who I am. I don't know if I want to.
Lindsey Vonn
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The language of women should be luminous, but not voluminous.
Douglas Jerrold
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Just be nice to people and be someone people want to work with because if people don't like working with you it's just not going to work out.
Gigi Hadid
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Our design, not respecting arts, but philosophy, and our subject, not manual, but natural powers, we consider chiefly those things which relate to gravity, levity, elastic force, the resistance of fluids, and the like forces, whether attractive or impulsive; and therefore we offer this work as mathematical principles of philosophy; for all the difficulty of philosophy seems to consist in this from the phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena.
Isaac Newton
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All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.
Salvador Dali
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God will put someone in your path today who doesn't necessarily need you... but who desperately needs Christ in you.
Mark Hart
Crowded House
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I play the guitar when I want to relax. But to play the guitar, you cut the nails. So one day, I'll cut the nails off.
Indra Nooyi
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Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
Edsger Dijkstra
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If anyone here is secretly dreaming of making the Olympics, I can tell you exactly how to do it, two words: Sustained Obsession. The obsession isn't so hard. But keeping it sustained is a tough nut to crack. A heart-felt enemy can go a long way to sustaining your obsession. Love your enemy.
Brad Alan Lewis
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If the Olympics come around, and I'm in shape, then I'll compete. But I won't be representing the United States; I'll be representing myself.
Steve Prefontaine
