Amby Burfoot Quotes
Running removes us briefly from the fragmentation and depersonalization of the digital world
Quotes to Explore
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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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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.
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Our quarterbacks were getting hurt; a couple got kicked out of school. The coach asked who wanted to try out for QB. I went and tried out, and from there on, I was a quarterback. I was ineligible in 10th grade until spring, so I did baseball. I started in left field and pitched.
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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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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Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.
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In India, therapy is not part of the culture; it has not become such a big need.
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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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We did 356 'Dallas' episodes between 1978 and 1991. The most memorable moment for me happened in 1980 when I got shot at the end of the third series. The rest is a blur.
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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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Fans, true fans, are hard to find and precious. Just a few can change everything. What they demand, though, is generosity and bravery.
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I'm fascinated by people who have to reinvent themselves. I did it a few times - I was going to be a physicist before I was passionate about philosophy - and I realized that one more change, and I'm going to start looking like a dilettante.
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Baseball people are generally allergic to new ideas; it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms, and it is the hardest thing in the world to get Major League Baseball to change anything-even spikes on a new pair of shoes-but they will eventually...they are bound to.
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You know, many people have called me, friends from the nationalist camp, revisionists and so on, from around the world, have called me over the years - and now again because of what happened - and they are all very cynical about the police and the authorities.
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If I were to make an uneducated guess about L.A.'s relationship with folk and psychedelia, I would say it must be the weather.
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Running removes us briefly from the fragmentation and depersonalization of the digital world
