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.Amby Burfoot
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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.
Parker Stevenson -
The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
Dan O'Brien -
I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.
Madeleine Albright -
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!
Flea Jane's Addiction -
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.
Walter Mosley -
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.
Patricia MacLachlan
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Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.
Barbara Castle -
Et maiores vestros et posteros cogitate.
Tacitus -
If the world were clear, art would not exist.
Albert Camus -
War can be prevented only by broad-minded statesmanship - a statesmanship that understands how to enlist people's interests in a leading cause.
Ellen Key -
I can't control the criticism. It's something you certainly don't appreciate, but by the same token, everybody is entitled to their opinion.
Don Shula -
Why do I pray? Because I never know what's going to pop out of my mouth.
Kathie Lee Gifford
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Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.
Christopher Lasch -
It's hard to explain to my parents what's going on. You can't compare Hollywood with Cuba. I didn't even know I could dream this.
Ana de Armas -
Too often people view idealists as naive.
Jacqueline Novogratz -
I used to dye my hair different colors and have crazy periods, especially early in my career when I played in Italy.
Marko Jaric -
When I see a white piece of paper, I feel I've got to draw. And drawing, for me, is the beginning of everything.
Ellsworth Kelly -
I started speaking about what I was dealing with through my music, and 4 million women responded and said, 'Us too, Mary.' And I didn't know that everyone was hurting like I was hurting. I had no idea.
Mary J. Blige
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It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends, for none but the earnest man gets access to the ear of God.
Edward McKendree Bounds -
There are days when I struggle with wanting to be a full-time, stay-at-home mom, and feeling guilty about that because I work.
Tori Spelling -
All roads end at the grave, which is the gate to nothingness.
George Bernard Shaw -
I feel that luck is a product of hard work.
Nipsey Hussle -
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.
Amby Burfoot