Deena Kastor Quotes
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
Daley Thompson -
You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battler.
Harmon Killebrew -
He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
Samuel Johnson -
My dream job was to work in an ice cream shop. Two weeks and five pounds later, I realized it wasn't for me. For many years, I had planned to be a corporate lawyer. As luck would have it, other than a summer internship, I didn't end up doing that either.
Safra A. Catz -
Actively deciding to give to causes that move you deeply is far more fulfilling than the momentary gratification derived from signing a check and mailing it to a nonprofit about which you know little more than what's on the brochure they sent you.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
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Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.
Talcott Parsons -
Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.
Takeshi Kitano -
I'm relaxed about my career. I've been making movies for over 20 years, so I've earned at least the right to relax.
Eddie Murphy -
The term 'pashmina' is often used interchangeably with 'cashmere,' but in reality, pashmina is a specific type of very fine, lofty cashmere, woven from a specific type of goat - one indigenous to northern India, Nepal, and Pakistan, and harvested and woven there as well.
Hanya Yanagihara -
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
Wallace Stegner -
The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.
Kabir Bedi
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Every time there's an election, people start to criticize China.
Jack Ma -
People are saying, 'Big Data is the new oil.'
Gary Wolf -
For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.
Babasaheb -
My father always had people around the house who were famous psychics.
Natalie Massenet -
All of the narration in 'Smile' is first-person. Most of the books that I grew up reading had first-person narrators for some reason. My diaries were written in this voice, and since this story is autobiographical, it just felt like a natural extension.
Raina Telgemeier -
Holding individuals accountable for corporate wrongdoing isn't ideological; it's good law enforcement.
Sally Yates
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None of the editors I've worked with have ever asked me to pull my punches. They've never asked me to give them anything other than my own interpretation of events.
James Nachtwey -
Loss; is the returning of what never actually belonged to us in the first place.
Yasmin Mogahed -
We must learn, and we are gradually learning, how to write history with the help of archaeology.
Michael Rostovtzeff -
I was addicted to hacking, more for the intellectual challenge, the curiosity, the seduction of adventure; not for stealing, or causing damage or writing computer viruses.
Kevin Mitnick -
Sometimes the moments that challenge us the most, define us.
Deena Kastor