Amby Burfoot Quotes
Running removes us briefly from the fragmentation and depersonalization of the digital world
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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I always say that I don't like it when people follow trends too much, just because it is on the runway. I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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I take a lot of pictures.
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If there are people you haven't forgiven, you're not going to really awaken. You have to let go.
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I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.
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As the captain, I was going to be having the dominant role in most of the episodes, and that was appealing. I wasn't interested in coming to Hollywood to sit around.
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'Don't Look Now' is a masterpiece. I think it's the best-edited movie of all time. I adore it.
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I don't think I'm ever really going to run the risk of disappearing into a Marvel franchise. I just don't know how I would fit into a catsuit.
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With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.
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Working with Sukumar was amazing. He's someone who trusts his actors and allows them to experiment with dialogues and scenes. When you're working with him, you learn a lot subconsciously, and that helped me in discovering the actor within.
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A good society is a society which believes that it is not good enough; that it is the task of the collectivity to insure individuals against individually suffered misfortune; and that the quality of society is measured by the quality of life of its weakest, just like the carrying power of a bridge is measured by its weakest pillar.
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Hours are golden links, God's tokenReaching heaven; but one by oneTake them, lest the chain be brokenEre the pilgrimage be done.
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The Pope, I hope, can only be scared by God.
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Is there something we have forgotten? Some precious thing we have lost, wandering in strange lands?
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Because I am Olympic champion, everyone assumes I am this perfect athlete who should never lose. Every time I step in the ring, I am expected to win.
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The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc. We must not be weighed down by an insistence on a one size fits all approach which implies that all countries want the same level of integration. The fact is that they don't and we shouldn't assert that they do.
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I can't remember when I wasn't running around doing some sort of a sporting activity.
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I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.
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We don't like offending anyone.
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Running removes us briefly from the fragmentation and depersonalization of the digital world
