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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When I was about 13, I met the coolest, chicest young woman I had ever seen. She was a neighbor of mine who became a fashion designer and had a small design studio. She taught me so many things about style and fashion. I had always loved making things, so when she told me about her career in fashion, I knew I had found my path.
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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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Basketball is my favorite sport, and I'm also a very passionate football fan.
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When I was a kid doing television, they'd stick a leather jacket on me, and I would be the thug.
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Why not sit around a Beverly Hills pool collecting residual cheques? That is not the kind of life I want.
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The journey is the destination. The process you're in is the goal. Success is never defined by the outcome but by the process.
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Only when we can accept God as he is can we give up the desire for spiritual experiences that we can feel.
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I've always liked hills. I see a challenge, a goal, and I feel instantly galvanized to achieve that goal.
