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Steve Prefontaine Quotes

People say I should be running for a gold medal for the old red, white and blue and all that bull, but it's not gonna be that way.

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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Red Blue People Gold White Say

Quite frankly, I would prefer to have a non-Christian like Mitt Romney who at least pretends to embrace biblical principles over a professing Christian like Barack Obama who embraces very unbiblical positions on abortion.

Robert Jeffress

Christian Abortion Embrace Principles

There were evictions that I saw that I know I'll never forget. In one case, the sheriff and the movers came up on a house full of children. The mom had passed away, and the children had just gone on living there. And the sheriff executed the eviction order - moved the kids' stuff out on the street on a cold, rainy day.

Matthew Desmond

Children Day Mom Cold Never Forget

I feel like if you told me I would be having a son, I would be like, 'Yeah, I'm gonna be a parent - I get that.' But when the doctor was like, 'You're gonna have a girl,' I was like, 'What? Who am I?' It's the craziest piece of information that changes who you are. It's sweet.

Girl Son Me Sweet Doctor Parent

I insist on doing all my own film stunts, although they are often worked out in advance by a stunt man who then advises me on the best and safest method of performing it.

Jean-Paul Belmondo

Best Man Me Doing My Own Out

All the time that I'm acting with an animated character, I'm looking at a tennis ball or sticky tape or an eyeline or a man in a green suit. There's no real environment, just this electric green that's blaring into your brain.

Character Time Man Brain Green Real

I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that.

Never High Started Film Aspirations

There are all kinds of other things I could do, things I would probably like, but only acting would give me emotional fulfillment.

Me Acting Emotional Fulfillment Give

We tend to think of human trafficking as a foreign issue, not something that could happen here in our own back yards. But it's a fast-growing problem in the United States, in every area, with no real defined demographic.

Think Problem Back Human Real Own

Being chronically shy I needed to create a persona for myself and be involved with a band where I could be ruler of my own kingdom. Then Pulp became hugely popular and I lost control of it, which is when it all went wrong.

Myself Control Wrong Create Lost

Anyone who's ever read the lyrics of an already cherished song has most likely encountered that hollow sensation of something missing, the absence of certain emotional integers. It can be like viewing a loved one's X-rays.

Song Loved Emotional Missing Absence

I like people who do what they do incredibly well and are active in their non-acting life, too.

Life People Active Well Who Like

Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many.

Wealth Reaction Spontaneous Resources

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