Amby Burfoot Quotes
Winning has nothing to do with racing. Most days don't have races anyway. Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up.
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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I feel like I'm five sometimes because I still enjoy myself. I enjoy what I do.
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In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.
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I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.
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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
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About 13-14 years ago, I went back to my alma mater, Fairfax High School, and ran into the music teacher. She invited me to come speak to the kids about the viability of a music career. When I went into the room where I used to play every day in a big orchestra, they had nothing!
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It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
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Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family.
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I think what happens is you write how you grew up. And I was born on the prairie, and so everything is kind of spare on the prairie. And so I'm just used to writing in that way. 'Sarah, Plain and Tall' was that way. And most of my fiction is. I like writing small pieces. Somehow it just suits me.
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Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.
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Truth be told, ginormous portions have become a pet peeve of mine.
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I've always been able to sense the relationship between two people based on how one person says the other's name!
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I subscribe to the online Urban Dictionary's definition of nerd: 'one whose IQ exceeds his weight'. I'm also keen on the same Urban Dictionary's definition of geek: 'the person you pick on in high school and wind up working for as an adult'. I happily proclaim myself a book nerd/reading geek and proud of it.
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I love those preliminary conversations about who a character is. You try on wigs, shoes, and clothes. It's preferable when it's not about looking pretty. It can get a little dull to just be cute.
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Et maiores vestros et posteros cogitate.
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Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.
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I'm surviving. I'm a survivor.
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The struggle is so great that the triumph over fascism alone is worth the sacrifice of our lives.
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In space, you can't see the borders. It doesn't look like a map. We're all like kids fighting in a sandbox, on the political and human side of it. The International Space Station was built in orbit. Each piece hurtled into space at eight kilometres per second. From an engineering point of view, it's madness. It's also a feat of policy - Russia, the U.S., Germany and Japan working together. Do you realize what that means? These countries were sending nukes to each other a generation ago. Space does that. It gives us that amazing big picture.
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I'm terribly forgetful. I've lost laptops, cell-phones.
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Winning has nothing to do with racing. Most days don't have races anyway. Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up.
