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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If this were a different time, a different place, I would take you to bed with me and make love to you for days.
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Here's the thing about Red Sox fans, or actually just fans from that region, in general: they appreciate the effort. And if you mail it in or if you give 80 percent, even with a win, they'll let you know that's not how you do it. They want - if it's comedian, if it's a musician, bring us your best show.
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The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.
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You are trying not only to reach your potential but to move beyond it. If you are not in the best shape you can be, these things simply become more difficult to achieve.
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My manager says we've been working with the FDA on this.
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I've always liked hills. I see a challenge, a goal, and I feel instantly galvanized to achieve that goal.
