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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I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'
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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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Politics won't allow for the truth.
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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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Wonder Woman is a fighter, better than most, but it's what she fights for that is important. It's her vision of a future of peace and acceptance that makes her the right ambassador for everyone.
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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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Am I the Irish comedian with half a finger? No, I'm the Irish comedian with nine and a half fingers.
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I think if you're an artist my advice to you is really stick to your guns and don't make records for anyone else. If you sign to a record label they always want to change you and you don't really need in a label that much anymore unless you're a real Pop band where they have to spend a lot of money on you.
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Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.
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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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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.
