Christopher McDougall Quotes

For nearly 2 million years, our ancestors survived and thrived and spread across the planet because they could run other mammals into heat exhaustion.

Christopher McDougall

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RunAncestorsHeatSpreadPlanet

I think it's brain chemistry. I'm a positive, cheerful person, and I think it is absolutely the luck of the draw. I think the life I have had has come largely from the chemicals in my head. I see my life as good, and I think, a lot of times, if you see your life as good, then that's how it turns out.

Ann Patchett

LifePositiveGoodLuckBrainThink

If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway.

Stanley Crouch

IntellectualSubwayHighwayAlso

That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting.

Studs Terkel

DebateArgumentMissingThings

The disorder, uncertainty, and strife of a revolution make citizens yearn for stable authority, or they turn to radicalism.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

RevolutionUncertaintyAuthorityTurn

When younger, I was thin as a rail. As I've grown older, I've put on weight. I have continued to love myself in all those roles. Part of my spirituality, I always tell people, is to accept yourself for who you are.

Troy Perry

LoveMyselfYourselfPeopleYou

My sense of myself is that I was a rather unformed kind of person trying to make myself up out of bits of spit and string.

Robyn Davidson

MyselfTryingPersonKindOutUp

Russia can become a strategic partner in a fight against international terrorism.

Milos Zeman

FightPartnerTerrorismBecome

'Betsy' is one of my favorites because it is the one to which I've imposed the least clear narrative. To me, it's so much more about the feeling - desperation - than any kind of story at all. There's very little imagery or character development; it's just about a deep and desperate search for something.

Julia Holter

CharacterMeStoryDeepSearchKind

What I try to do, what I attempt to do, is say things that I mean at least at an emotional level.

Josh Gondelman

SayTryMeanEmotionalThingsLevel

Going to New York to do whatever - show business - it just seemed fun. It seemed fun to go to the big city and meet all kinds of different people and maybe be famous. It was just exciting. So I wasn't scared.

January Jones

BusinessFunNew YorkPeopleCity

I have a sketch of an idea and I never really talk about: perhaps do another jazz record, but with other elements involved.

Dianne Reeves

JazzSketchTalkNeverInvolved

By the time I land in Iowa, I feel like my mind is more open to the reality of being back home and focusing on the problems of the people in my district.

Bruce Braley

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