Amby Burfoot Quotes
I've always liked hills. I see a challenge, a goal, and I feel instantly galvanized to achieve that goal.
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending.
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I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now.
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We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right.
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The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
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We should not underestimate the ability of people to do wrong if they want to do so.
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Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame. The fault lies not with the individual but with the system, and that system is Richard Nixon.
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I consider myself very lucky, essentially - I was put into a pop group even though my musical taste was very niche before.
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Often women are pitted against each other for an easy joke, so they fight or steal each other's boyfriends. That's not really true to life.
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I am a lifelong Democrat.
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I don't like music docs, usually. There's nothing to really say. What can you say about music? Normally, you can't say too much. There are a few really good ones, but the majorities are boring, I think.
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For my part, I make this pledge to all of you: The politics of division, of pitting east against west, urban versus rural, region against region, and people against people will have no place in my Administration.
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I have enough energy to insist on saying what I think.
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I was never someone that was attached to any party. You know, I've always been an independent person. I'd like to remain like that.
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I think that what computers have done is just disastrous to the language.
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Liberalism will beat totalitarianism by killing it softly, not by mimicking it.
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I like it when people make an effort to wear things that you wouldn't normally put together - I like eccentrics.
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When you believe in something, stand up for it, even if everyone is sitting.
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Look wide, beyond your immediate surroundings and limits, and you see things in their right proportion. Look above the level of things around you and see a higher aim and possibility to your work.
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Repeating easy tasks again and again gets you not very far. Attacking only steep cliffs where no progress is made isn’t particularly effective either. No, the best path is an endless series of difficult (but achievable) hills.
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We're a little bit competitive and we want to make sure we're on the top. We're all working for the same goal as all these bands, we want to come out on top and I think we have accomplished that in a lot of ways. You want to keep improving yourselves and getting better at what you do.
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If you're a real hip-hop fan and a real street music fan, and you just love good music, you're gonna play it from top to bottom, and you're gonna get the concept, you're gonna get the story of my life, you're gonna be entertained, you're gonna dance you're gonna feel emotion, you're gonna get the truth, whether you like it or hate it.
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I've always liked hills. I see a challenge, a goal, and I feel instantly galvanized to achieve that goal.
