Amby Burfoot Quotes
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I vowed I would do everything I could to stop the Isle of Man counting towards the world championship. And it was stopped, so they love me in the Isle of Man.
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The speed limit on most of Maui's highways is forty miles per hour, but my mother never went above thirty.
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For 100 m., you have to go out fast but also bring it back, so we've been doing a lot of work on the back-end speed.
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The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
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A strong and enthusiastic niche audience can push a topic into mainstream consciousness with speed and force.
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Boxing gives you such a good workout, although I've stopped sparring. When your hand speed goes, you're going to get caught, and you can't afford to take cumulative smacks on the chops when you're a writer.
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I've often stopped working for long periods.
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TV is all about speed. TV is fast and furious. It's gunslinger territory.
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Let it flow, while I pump it slow, then I speed it up, heat it up, make it more nasty.
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I got too far forward with my skates. I lost a lot of speed and almost went down.
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Affirm the body, beautiful and whole, The earth-expression of immortal soul. Affirm the mind, the messenger of the hour, To speed between thee and the source of power. Affirm the spirit, the Eternal I - Of this great trinity no part deny.
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Expand within your church. Expand within the people you have contact. Bring them up to speed in knowledge on what’s going on.
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If Landau would have been here he would have stopped you after twenty seconds.
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I realized when I stopped Charlie's Angels, I didn't do series for a couple of years. And I realized that from the time I was 5 years old when I started school, I had been told when to get up every morning, where to go then, what to do when I got there, when to have lunch, when to come back, what do to after lunch, when to go home, what to study, when to have dinner, and when to go to bed.
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Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing of her gallèd eyes, She married. O, most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!
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Lo! while we are gazing, in swifter haste Stream down the snows, till the air is white, As, myriads by myriads madly chased, They fling themselves from their shadowy height. The fair, frail creatures of middle sky, What speed they make, with their grave so nigh; Flake after flake, To lie in the dark and silent lake!
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Slow seems their speed whose thoughts before them run.
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Our focus should be on making the most of our own lives, regardless of whether we start at the bottom or the top- not on envying the advantages and achievements of others.
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Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world.
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I've never lived my life in the opinion of others. I believe I'm a good person. I believe I'm a good mom. But that's for my kids to decide, not for the world.
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Bullshit is unavoidable when circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about. Thus, the production of bullshit is stimulated whenever a person's obligations or opportunities to speak about some topic exceed his knowledge of the facts that are relevant to that topic. This discrepancy is common in public life, where people are frequently impelled-whether by their own propensities or by the demands of others - to speak extensively about matters of which they are to some degree ignorant.
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It's not about speed and gold medals. It's about refusing to be stopped.
