Adam Goucher Quotes
You are truly your own hero in running. It is up to you to have the responsibility and self-discipline to get the job done.
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I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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Insults are the business of the court.
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Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
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Work faithfully, and you will put yourself in possession of a glorious and enlarging happiness.
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I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, saying to the previous generation of writers, 'Look, I'm interested in Ottoman things, and I'm not afraid of it, and I'm doing something creative.'
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Every actor wants to, in our own sort of weird sort of way, we really want to push ourselves and test ourselves.
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The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it.
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As it becomes longer at No. 1, I feel more and more pressure. Everybody is trying to grab every piece of me.
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I train to be the champion.
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When I was in my 20s, I thought I knew who I was. And then as soon as I turned 30, I realized that person has bruises and bumps and dark parts. And you kind of go, well, that's it. I'd rather embrace it than force myself to change.
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You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
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It's really hard to use a laptop when you only have half a lap.
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I thought of myself as an adult trapped in a kid's body. Had I known what adulthood was like, I would have embraced childhood a little more.
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To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic.
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When you're in N.Y.C. and they shut down one of the bridges, this is a movie!
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In July of 2010, I lost my finance job in Chicago. Instead of updating my resume and looking for a similar job, I decided to forget about money and have a go at something I truly enjoyed. I'd purchased a semi-professional camera earlier that year and spent my free time taking photos in downtown Chicago.
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When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
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I don't feel any kind of a responsibility (other than to myself) to write "weighty" lyrics. In fact I sometimes wish I could learn to write in a simpler form, to be more direct and I'm going to be experimenting with this.
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Sometimes I wish we were the Eagles. That's one thing they've always been able to do is want the same thing for the same reasons.
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The middlebrow, I hate.
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You are truly your own hero in running. It is up to you to have the responsibility and self-discipline to get the job done.
