Miles Quotes - Page 19

• My most noticeable physical trait is, hands down, my hair. It's big, unruly and curly, and you can spot it from a mile away... literally.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Hair, Hands, Bigs

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• As you get older, things conk out. It's a bit like a car. As long as it's something the mechanics can fix, you can chug on for a few more thousand miles.

  Len Goodman

  Long, Car, Mechanic

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• To me, there is no greater way to achieve clarity than to run alone, or share miles with a trusted friend.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Running, Way, Clarity

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• In London, I've always lived within 10 miles of where I was born. You see, there is something called a spirit of place, and my place happens to be London, at least once a fortnight.

  Peter Ackroyd

  London, Spirit, Born

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• My wife is very patient. On our honeymoon in 1992, we got a motor home and drove from L.A. to Idaho and then down the coast. I was running a lot, then so she would drop me off, drive six miles, park and wait for me.

  Sean Astin

  Running, Home, Idaho

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• A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.

  Larry Wall

  Journey, Steps, Computer

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• I'd walk a million miles to give her what she needs. But she would walk a million more to do what she believes.

  Elton John

  Relationship, Believe, Giving

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• Herds of reindeer move across Miles and miles of golden moss

  W. H. Auden

  Nature, Moving, Moss

  'The Fall of Rome' (1951)

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• Hiking a ridge, a meadow, or a river bottom, is as healthy a form of exercise as one can get. Hiking seems to put all the body cells back into rhythm. Ten to twenty miles on a trail puts one to bed with his cares unraveled.

  William O. Douglas

  Nature, Exercise, Cells

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• The one that rambles for a million miles, yes, I walk down this road searching for your love.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Low Self Esteem, Walks, Millions

  Jimi Hendrix, Roger St. Pierre (1986). “Jimi Hendrix: recorded poems”

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• Writing is fun - at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That's easy to manage.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Fun, Writing

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• If I put faith in medication, if I can smile a crooked smile, if I can talk on television, if I can walk an empty mile.

  David Bowie

  Art, Media, Television

  Song: Afraid, Album: Heathen, 2002

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• Evil tendency, strong like Miles Davis heroin dependency.

  Chino XL

  Strong, Evil, Musical

  Song: Deliver

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• The Byrds flew off the fallout shelter, eight miles high and falling fast.

  Don McLean

  Fall, Eight, Musical

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• I grew up not far from where Motown was founded, maybe 300 miles from Detroit and I've always liked - I used to like the way they made records. I still do, I just haven't had a chance to hear as much. They used to entertain me.

  Rick Danko

  Records, Way, Detroit

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• I just went off for two months traveling around Europe on a motorcycle and pretty much turned my phone off. I did 5,000 miles with my dad. We went through Holland, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Italy... and then I did Spain and France by myself.

  Michael Fassbender

  Dad, Phones, Europe

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• Anything is possible. I've got a few more miles in me. I'm not going to feel sorry for myself.

  Michael Flatley

  Sorry, Feels, Anything Is Possible

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• People will have MP3s of every Miles Davis' record but never think of hearing any of them twice in a row - there's just too much to get through.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Thinking, Mp3, People

  "Dithering: Jonny Greenwood". Interview with Sasha Frere-Jones, www.newyorker.com. September 1, 2009.

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• Beside every great success are the seeds of enormous failure. In every failure, there's the opportunity seeds of great success. They're not miles apart. So if they're that close together, and if you're really working, you're always gonna have that likelihood that something's not going to work.

  Peter Guber

  Opportunity, Together, Great Success

  "Entertainment exec Peter Guber". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 15, 2011.

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• I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.

  Barry Hannah

  Boys, Practice, Endless

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• I always told the people at Cal Arts that if they wanted me to do Jazz studies, first of all, there couldn't be a big band within 500 miles and that I could do what I wanted to do. And they said I could.

  Charlie Haden

  Art, People, Band

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• I used to be sick of the backroads of Minnesota. I had to drive 30 miles to get home every day, take the schoolbus for two hours. But to drive through America and see the backroads, from Nashville to Memphis, Lovick to New Mexico, was incredible. It was probably the greatest trip of my life.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Home, Nashville, Two

  "Garrett Hedlund: 'Life is fun when you're in motion'". Interview With Damon Wise, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2012.

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• I run a lot. I have this five-mile run that I try and do a few times a week. If I do more, I get shin splints and it drives me mad, so I have to balance it.

  Richard Hammond

  Running, Mad, Trying

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a thousand miles from nowhere, time don't matter to me. I'm a thousand miles from nowhere and there's not place that I want to be.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Philosophy, Want, Matter

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• They've got a wall in China, it's a thousand miles long. To keep out the foreigners, they made it strong. And I've got a wall around me, you can't even see.

  Paul Simon

  Strong, Wall, Philosophy

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