Steve Prefontaine (Steve Roland "Pre" Prefontaine) Quotes
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I'm no producer's kid.
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When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.
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We don't take anything when we pass away, and we need to do with the sense of responsibility.
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A lot of the music I write is about love. Sometimes I won't understand how I am feeling until I write a song about it.
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I don't care who is attacking my son. I still support him; I still love him.
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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.
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As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions.
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Sometimes you'll see people give performances in comedy with an ironic detachment where they'll sort of be remarking on the character from outside of it. They're sort of commenting as they're playing the character. I think it's hard not to do that. I've certainly done that.
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Maybe I need to make a change, or maybe it's living here in New York or using social media or working in media and entertainment, but I feel like I'm constantly trying to maintain this sense of, 'Why do I do what I do?'
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When I read poetry, I read it aloud. It's so much better that way.
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We are bigger in number than as many as 131 independent nations, why should we remain deprived of independence?
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'Course the world of sports takes itself way too serious. Sports writers are all high and mighty.
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I have never seen anything like that. It was pretty impressive.
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And that's what's so inspirational about something like DIONYSUS. It actually records the moment that it happened. Kind of like a document of the period.
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Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.
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While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.
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To take something from a person and keep it for oneself: that is robbery. To take something from one person and then turn it over to another in exchange for as much money as you can get: that is business. Robbery is so much more stupid, since it is satisfied with a single, frequently dangerous profit; whereas in business it can be doubled without danger.
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To go up 2-0 and then lose that lead and draw the game was something we could not have foreseen. That is something which has to be sorted.
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I'm much more concerned about what artists think. But as you get older you tend to get much more isolated; you're not out in the bar, having long drunken arguments on the benefits of your work vs. someone else's. It's hard to know how people are looking at it, and you don't get much feedback. The written critical stuff seems to be the feedback, but that's hard to interpret.
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We are going to help the young talented athletes become world champions.
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Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.
