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"We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon."
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"We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives."
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"I haven't been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I've been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don't blow money. I don't have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I've already had that experience."
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"Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink."
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"I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future."
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"We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon."
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"It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience."
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"My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan."
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"I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience."
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"Experience everything but cling to what is right."
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"Being the only non-Black was a unique experience. After a few weeks, you're not aware of skin color differences. You see the color; you're not blind, but it doesn't matter. You see the human being first."
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"We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon."
Experience
"Men, today we die a little."
Man
"What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come."
Reading
"If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's besides the point. It's simply that I just have to."
Power
"There is a great advantage in training under unfavorable conditions. It is better to train under bad conditions, for the difference is then a tremendous relief in a race."
Difference
"It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys."
Man
"You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it."
Enthusiasm
"To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come."
Performance
"When I was young, I was too slow. I thought I must learn to run fast by practicing to run fast, so I ran 100 meters fast 20 times. Then I came back, slow, slow, slow."
Thought
"A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket."
Dream
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