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• My feeling is, we ran from animals for three million years. It's our time now. If a cow could eat you, it would. And it wouldn't care how comfortable your truck ride over was, either.

  Greg Proops

  Animal, Years, Feelings

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• My reading was good enough to play big-band charts, but I ran into trouble with Claude (Thornhill)'s theme song "Snowfall," which had a repeating bass line in D-flat that was very difficult for me to finger using my self-taught technique. I spent one morning figuring out an alternate fingering, and that started me on the way to learning a better use of the fingerboard.

  Bill Crow

  Song, Morning, Reading

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• It seems perverse to focus too much on the casualties or hardship in Afghanistan ...[Showing the misery of Afghanistan ran the risk of] promoting enemy propaganda...we must talk about how the Taliban are using civilian shields and how the Taliban have harboured the terrorists responsible for killing close up to 5,000 innocent people.

  Walter Isaacson

  People, Focus, Risk

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• I quickly learned to take anger and use it to motivate me. My sister ran away from home, and she was my world. And that was that. The guitar became my world.

  Meredith Brooks

  Home, Guitar, Use

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• Hateful material travels the globe. A few years ago, CNN, America's Der Sturmer, ran a story about Black parents being so low down that they abandoned their children and the children had to eat rats. I was at a University in Wisconsin at the time and the mother of a student from South Africa called to see whether the story was true. She had seen it all the way over there. The story was untrue. The children lied. CNN never corrected the story.

  Ishmael Reed

  Mother, Children, Years

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Some of the guys in the Northern Alliance are war criminals. One of the Northern Alliance commanders ran a slave girl network in Kabul in 1994. Remember that there was a period when every woman on the streets was at risk of being raped. This was the Northern Alliance period of glory.

  Robert Fisk

  Girl, War, Guy

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. November 30, 2001.

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• Scarlatti [Kirkpatrick] started writing sonatas when he was 66 and the idea that he ran off 500 or so after he was 66 was just too much for me to resist. It's just great.

  Frank Stella

  Writing, Ideas, Too Much

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• My name was given to me. I didn't just decide to change it one day. But I ran with it to reflect a more peaceful and positive attitude for my new Reincarnated project. The Snoop Dogg name is so connected to hip-hop, and I didn't want to change that. Hip-hop raised me, and I would never turn my back on it.

  Snoop Dogg

  Attitude, Names, Hip Hop

  "Snoop Dogg/Lion: ‘The ‘Turbo’ Interview with Kam Williams". Interview with Kam Williams, www.eurweb.com. July 31, 2013.

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• Running unites us and brings us together because, in the words of the great Bill Rogers, "We sweat the same. We struggle the same." Running is a simple, primitive act, and therein lays its power. for it is one of the few commonalities left between us as a human race. Toeing the starting line of a marathon, regardless of the language you speak, the God you worship or the color of your skin, we all stand as equal. Perhaps the world would be a better place if more people ran.

  Dean Karnazes

  Running, Struggle, Simple

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• Today the Washington Post did an article; they compared the 2008 presidential election to the 1932 presidential election. They did a comparison, mainly because 1932 was the first time John McCain ran for president.

  Conan O'Brien

  Presidential, Today, Firsts

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• I saw more stupid people in graduate school and three decades in academia than I ever did who ran 100 acres without going broke.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Stupid, School, People

  "Why the Elitist Hatred Toward Palin?" by Victor Davis Hanson, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 10, 2009.

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• Society is an insane asylum ran by the inmates.

  Erving Goffman

  Insane, Inmates, Asylums

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• In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.

  Gail Sheehy

  Girlfriend, Children, Facts

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• Thatcher had broken the miners' union, all but crushed the Labour Party, dramatically cut back the welfare state, even flirted with a poll tax. In the circles I ran in, Reagan was mocked as a childish dolt. Thatcher was despised.

  Jon Weisman

  Party, Cutting, Circles

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Apocalyptic expectations ran riot in 1917, and had a major influence on Allied policies towards Palestine and the Jewish people. The propaganda of all nations was amazingly religious and apocalyptic - ghosts and visions, crucifixions and sacrifice, crusaders and holy warriors.

  Philip Jenkins

  Religious, Sacrifice, Warrior

  Interview with Scott McKnight, www.patheos.com. January 23, 2016.

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• When I was a kid I thought I saw a ghost in the forest when I was on a bush walk, like a walk through the forest. I saw something weird pass from one side of the track to the other, and it was sort of a white, blurry... it's hard to describe, really, something that was almost see-through but it just moved in front of me. It was definitely something you could tell was there, and it really freaked me out. I think I was probably 10, and I ran all the way home.

  Rhys Darby

  Home, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I forgot Dumbledore trashed Hogwarts, refused to resign and ran off to the forest to make speeches to angry trolls.

  J. K. Rowling

  Speech, Forests, Hogwarts

  Twitter post from Jun 30, 2016

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• I was told I had to go to business school to succeed. I gave it a shot, but eventually dropped out to bootstrap a restaurant with just a Visa card and a $20,000 line of credit. Everyone told me restaurants were hard work (and they were right! I have so much respect for anyone in the restaurant business). I ran the restaurant for two years, sold a franchise, decided to change paths, and sold the whole operation at a modest profit.

  Ryan Holmes

  Hard Work, School, Years

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• I think if a candidate ran for office in most states in the country, if his opponent, or her opponent was an effective advocate against the TPP and could show, as I think we will be able to show, it's detrimental to working Americans, I think they would have a hard time getting elected.

  Jeff Sessions

  Country, Thinking, Hard Times

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Hillary Clinton ran the "Bimbo Eruptions Unit" with a woman named Betsey Wright. And in so doing, she preserved the Democrat Party, because she preserved the career of Bill Clinton.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Careers, Eruption

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I'm going to keep talking about what I would do as president, the experience that I bring, the temperament and judgment that led President [Barack] Obama to ask me to be secretary of state after we ran a really hard primary against each other. It's funny to me, because when I have a position, whether it's first lady, or senator, or secretary of state, and I'm doing the work, I'm really quite popular.

  Hillary Clinton

  Talking, President, Firsts

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I am extraordinarily proud of the campaign that we ran. The issues that we raised, the fact that we got 13 million Americans to vote for a political revolution.

  Bernie Sanders

  Issues, Political Revolution, Campaigns

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I ran away for a couple years just to prove I've hever been free.

  Aaron Bruno

  Couple, Years, Prove

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• I went to business school, and I went straight from that to a nine-year career at Microsoft. Eventually, I ran a big chunk of the consumer products division for Microsoft.Then I left with the birth of our first daughter because Bill and I both wanted to have a few kids.

  Melinda Gates

  Daughter, School, Kids

  Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

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• I ran into Axl [Rose] at a club some year ago and told him he's crazy, we all miss them, and he needs to get the band back together.

  Steven Tyler

  Crazy, Years, Rose

  Source: archive.alternativenation.net

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