Speed Quotes
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We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.
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I bought my first electric car in 1970. Its top speed was 15 mph and it had just a 15 mile range - it was essentially a golf cart with a windshield wiper and a horn.
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I do interval training, high intensity dance, and yoga. I do run a lot, but more for speed.
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When I was competing, I would run daily 20 kilometers, and in addition to that, I'd put in many hours of fighting and sparring. That's why I was always able to keep the speed in the ring. I would train so hard that sometimes it was not only hard to stand up, but it would also be hard to lay down.
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You'd be hard pressed to find a bigger champion of high-speed rail than me when the bond went to voters. I believed in it.
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Speed is more important than endurance in the decathlon.
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Second base is anything but magic. If it's anything at all, it's speed, sureness with your hands and lots of hard work.
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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
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It wasn't until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed.
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No matter what lens you use, no matter what speed the film, no matter how you develop it, no matter how you print it, you cannot say more than you can see.
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Generally, speed skaters don't run that much. I'm a little bit of an exception in that I run a lot.
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Competition is like a treadmill. If you stand still, you get swept off. But when you run, you can never really get ahead of the treadmill and cover new terrain - so you never run faster than the speed that is set.
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I actually think I'm more of a turtle than Verne is. Where Verne is up on two legs and moving at full speed and doesn't pull his head into the shell very often, I in reality was five or ten minutes later to every recording session.
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The thing I really like about Twitter is the speed with which information reaches me. You find out things from Twitter long before they're on the news. That, I think, is valuable.
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By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.
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For 100 m., you have to go out fast but also bring it back, so we've been doing a lot of work on the back-end speed.
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My serve can get better, for sure. It's not just about serving bombs, but positioning, variation in speed, in spin.
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The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the speed of automobiles or the efficiency of air transportation, but rather the care given to the welfare of all the people.
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We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of Libertarian Communism.
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Move fast. Speed is one of your main advantages over large competitors.
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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There is more to life than increasing its speed.
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I want everybody to run at the same speed as me. But some people are more conscientious, they think more and they plan more. And they're more careful.
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We used to dial; now we speed dial. We used to read; now we speed read. We used to walk; now we speed walk. And of course, we used to date, and now we speed date. And even things that are by their very nature slow - we try and speed them up, too.
