Steve Prefontaine Quotes

A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.

Steve Prefontaine

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 25, 1951 - May 30, 1975

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The little black dress expresses a moment of freedom and individuality every time.

Andre Leon Talley

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'Anchorman'... is not grounded in anything. There is absolutely no heart to that movie, which I love.

Steve Carell

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'Beyond Glory' is responsible for this wave that I've been fortunate enough to ride for the last few years. And that I did primarily because I didn't know what else to do. You might say I did it out of desperation.

Stephen Lang

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Hollywood is right. A good and strong movie can have a more powerful social impact than any and all political speeches or newspaper editorials and columns.

Mike Royko

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The frontiers of a book are never clear-cut: beyond the title, the first lines, and the last full stop, beyond its internal configuration and its autonomous form, it is caught up in a system of references to other books, other texts, other sentences: it is a node within a network.

Michel Foucault

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I think that people are tired. They're tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

Michelle Obama

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The United States should pursue a more robust agenda for U.S. competitiveness and innovation focused on a lower-carbon economy, including investments in education, basic research and development, infrastructure, retraining, retirement security, and universal health care.

Mona Sutphen

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Growing up, I stayed in a child's place. My father was murdered when I was 20. I was a model and never had a real job and my parents took care of me.

LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

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Diabetes is all about insulin levels and sugar levels and what you put in your body.

Jay Cutler

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I'm always writing at night - things I would change, things I would do differently. When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently.

Don Mattingly

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I don't pretend to be a great interviewer; I don't even pretend to be good at my job.

Chelsea Handler

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If there's a song that stops meaning anything to me, then I'll quit playing it.

Conor Oberst

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