Terry Fox Quotes

One thing hurts me. I keep hearing 'Terry Fox.' I'm not doing the run to become rich or famous... To me, being famous is not the idea of the run. The only important part is that cancer can be beaten.

Terry Fox

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: July 28, 1958 - June 28, 1981

Topics

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I had no choice but to work hard. I was a straight-A student, went to college, and I loved business. I never thought I was going to be a singer myself. It came accidentally.

Jenni Rivera

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On one level, of course, the notion of judging films or books or music against each other is completely ridiculous. Who's to say '12 Years A Slave' is a better film than 'The Wolf of Wall Street'? Or that one album in a certain genre is better than another in a completely different genre?

John Niven

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Creating a vertically oriented regional ecosystem is a pretty amazing accomplishment for any country or industry.

Steve Blank

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I love giving people advice on what to do with their books, but I don't really know how a Kindle Single gets covered.

Sloane Crosley

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If you buy something online, you're supposed to pay a use tax.

Ron DeSantis

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One of the worst things about ageing is the waning of your physical powers. I live in a house with 64 stairs, and I cannot run up and down them any more; my knee has conked out.

Miriam Margolyes

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Opportunity expands when there is excellence and choice in education, when taxes are lowered, when every citizen has affordable, portable health insurance and when constitutional freedoms are preserved.

Mitt Romney

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The sport of competitive memorizing is driven by a kind of arms race where every year somebody comes up with a new way to remember more stuff more quickly, and then the rest of the field has to play catch-up.

Joshua Foer

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Our physiological constitution is obviously a product of Darwinian processes, insofar as you buy the evolutional theory as a generative, as an account of the mechanism that generated us. Our physiology evolved, our behaviors evolved, and our accounts of those behaviors, both successful and unsuccessful, evolved.

Jordan Peterson

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Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical.

Derrick Jensen

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The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).

Dawn Powell

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Her parents, Austin Taylor and Kathleen Taylor, were big deals in Vancouver - they were civic leaders, and he raced horses in the Kentucky Derby - and my mother grew up a debutante. And when she and my dad were married, there were about a thousand guests at that reception.

Christopher Buckley

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