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Dean Karnazes Quotes

Running is a simple, primitive act, and therein lays its power. For it is one of the few commonalities left between us as a human race.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: August 23, 1962

Topics

Power Simple Race Human Act Left

Even my older brothers' early success 10 years ago didn't change me since there was such an age difference.

Change Success Age Me Early Years

This wealth of experiences, personal and professional, have helped me appreciate the variety of perspectives that present themselves in every case that I hear.

Sonia Sotomayor

Me Present Appreciate Wealth Variety

I'd been involved with stand-up before improv, so I already thought highly of myself as being a funny person. I never thought I wasn't funny.

Funny Myself Thought Person Never

When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.

Music Death Flowers Want Listen

I'm not someone who wants to be second-guessed at all.

Someone Who Wants

I don't have to work just to work anymore. More interesting parts come my way, so I can afford to say, 'I don't want to make that.'

Work Interesting I Can Say Want Way

My office has two buildings that function like the right and left sides of the brain. There's a room where everything is being edited for an upcoming project, but you can pull out of that into a tranquil space to work in a different, more solitary medium. It's an architectural unfolding of the process instead of just one chaotic structure.

Work Space Brain Process You Office

I never go into a scene - ever, ever, ever - thinking, I have to make myself more empathetic toward the audience. Once you start doing that, you get into really dangerous territory. I think you start to become kind of untrue to the character.

Character Myself Start Thinking You

Look, you're not going to get me to say that Democrats don't make mistakes. We do. I mentioned two areas - pension reform and seniority and tenure. I've done both - I've advocated for both. I've advocated for - seek for reform as well.

Antonio Villaraigosa

Mistakes Me You Look Done Say

I think it's important to understand the concrete ways things work and to respect that. But some things shouldn't be explained, and you have to respect that, too.

Astrid Berges-Frisbey

Work Respect Think You Understand

When employers tell me they prefer married men, and encourage their men to have homes of their own, because it makes them so much steadier, I wonder if they have any idea of all that that implies.

Men Me Wonder Tell Own Encourage

Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life - I don't mean the ironic and disillusioned smile of my grandfather, but the triumphant smile of the person who knows that he will survive, or that at least he will be saved by what seems to be destroying him.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Life Smile Survive Person Nothing

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