Steve Prefontaine (Steve Roland "Pre" Prefontaine) Quotes
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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
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Ballyhoo is for your classic girl, who is fun and fearless. This is for the girl who is not afraid to dress fun.
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The human genome contains so much data that, it has been calculated, it would fill 43 volumes of Webster's International Dictionary.
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Being made in the image of God, man was the crown of creation.
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My three obsessions are mental illness, horror and religion.
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Fine art is really something I want to get into.
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I think that I am lucky and blessed to have the job that I have, and I am trying to create longevity. If that means that I transition into different things at different points in my life, then that's fine. I also believe that if doors don't open, make new doors, so I've also started producing quite a bit of things.
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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
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That overachieving, ambitious, nobody-can-hold-me-down attitude I had, which came from a place of anger and aggression, has transformed into feeling like I will take on the world, but I will do it with an embrace, rather than with my dukes up.
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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.
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I've come to understand that the truth isn't really what's important...what really matters is what people agree is the truth. -Greymane
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This detachment (poverty, chastity, etc.) must not be mere amputation; everything which is shaken off must be simultaneously found again at a higher level.
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Stand-up is so rewarding, and I enjoy the acting opportunities I've had, but the only time I really feel bad is when I feel like I have this manufactured belief that I should be doing something else or there should be some type of recognition. On an intellectual level, I know it's stupid.
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Beauty may be said to be God's trademark in creation.
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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The degree to which they are a community is marked by the degree of effort they devote to attain their purpose, the degree of their commitment to it, and the degree of their commitment to each other.
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Everyone is free to write and say whatever he likes, without any restrictions.
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One always likes to do the things for which one has ability.
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Strategically, it is that same paradoxical logic that transforms victories into defeats if they merely persist long enough to pass their culminating point, whether by overextension or by bringing others into the fray, or both. And there is much more of the same, at every level of struggle, from the clash of weapons to the clash of empires, and in peace as well as in war. Always and everywhere it is the paradoxical logic of strategy that determines outcomes, whether the protagonists know of its existence or not.
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Nobody likes tainted victories.
