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"In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect."

"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."

"Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders."

"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."

"Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts."

"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."

"The greatest drawback in making pictures is the fact that film makers have to eat."
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"I started in law school in '71 and graduated in '74. So I was training for the Olympics, running or averaging around 20 miles a day and going to law school full time."

"Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood."

"So, in a way I was hedging and saying that if the Olympic stuff doesn't work out at least I can be a lawyer."

"A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time."

"When you are caring about your children perhaps you always have to remember at what point you can become over involved because of something you need rather than something the child needs."

"It is just called Continuing Legal Education. You can go to lectures, you can even listen to tapes on airplanes - they want you to stay current. So you do have to stay current to maintain your license even if you are not practicing."

"I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older."

"For the novice runner, I'd say to give yourself at least 2 months of consistently running several times a week at a conversational pace before deciding whether you want to stick with it. Consistency is the most important aspect of training at this point."
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