Amby Burfoot Quotes
Running has taught me, perhaps more than anything else, that there's no reason to fear starting lines... or other new beginnings.
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Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.
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Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
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The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.
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I always like to sing along to some depressing, angry Morrissey.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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There are different sides to me; I wanted to make a personal film but I would not want to make any film that does not reflect me in it. At least, not right now. I'm just too young to be doing that.
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The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.
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I had seen the ballet of 'Swan Lake' as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years.
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If you've got cockles, those nickel-size, heart-shaped mollusks, and you want to get fancy, steam them, then toss the meat in finely ground cornmeal.
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The reactions of organic magnesium compounds are of two kinds - reactions of substitution and reactions of addition.
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Sometimes I feel I hope I am not taking advantage of my stardom.
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I think there's always room for more innovation and new things.
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I spoke with Abramovich. He is very simple and loves football. We were on the same wavelength: he wants to confirm Chelsea's position at the top.
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There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers have to make their money back and Tonys and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
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All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
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I was a stand-up comedian for 10 years, if you can believe it. And I gave it up at age 22.
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I do not think that it is right for me to start giving opinions about the human rights situation of any country, including Gambia, except when those crimes translate into the crimes that I have to investigate.
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People have really strong images of what church is, and it's almost certainly not the same as mine.
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When people sit in front of a microphone, they feel empowered.
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He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood to make living a full end of life.
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When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.
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Running has taught me, perhaps more than anything else, that there's no reason to fear starting lines... or other new beginnings.
