Christopher McDougall Quotes

Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of biology, psychology, actuarial statistics, and basic common sense.

Christopher McDougall

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I miss the cast and crew of 'Supernatural' immensely. I know it's a cliche to say your cast and crew are like your family, but it's really the case there.

Jim Beaver

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I'm hard to pin down. I tend to look different in films.

Joan Allen

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The Internet is especially adept at compressing humanity and making it easy to forget there are people behind tweets, posts, and memes.

Jenna Wortham

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The world may end up under a Sword of Damocles on a tightrope over the abyss.

Andrei A. Gromyko

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I'm basically a starving artist.

John Trudell

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Nevertheless, all of us who work in quantum physics believe in the reality of a quantum world, and the reality of quantum entities like protons and electrons.

John Polkinghorne

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The hierarchy is set out for me. The first priority is piano. I have to be 101 percent prepared. I find that at other times of the day, if the creative juices are working, I might want to write or compose.

Stephen Hough

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I can and do aspire to be greater than the sum total of my experiences, but I accept my limitations. I willingly accept that we who judge must not deny the differences resulting from experience and heritage but attempt, as the Supreme Court suggests, continuously to judge when those opinions, sympathies and prejudices are appropriate.

Sonia Sotomayor

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Wherever I go, I buy shoes.

Sonia Rykiel

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I think a lot of moral debates are not over what is the basis of justice, but who gets a ticket to play in the game.

Steven Pinker

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I watch every day when we hit and take ground balls and the way we go about our business. If I saw any lackadaisical approach, that would concern me.

Mike Quade

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O.K., if the desire to knock America off its pedestal, to redistribute American income to other countries, to shrink America's footprint in the world, makes you anti-American, then Obama is in fact anti-American.

Dinesh D'Souza

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