Miles Quotes - Page 20

• I wear a pedometer, aiming for five miles a day - don't be too impressed; that includes walking around my house and food shopping.

  Elinor Lipman

  Shopping, House, Walking

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• I walk an 11-minute mile without huffing and puffing.

  Jessye Norman

  Huffing, Minutes, Walks

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• Music is my only guide. I don't care if people pigeonhole me. Miles Davis is my hero. He covered Cindy Lauper and Michael Jackson, and he didn't give a hoot about what the purists said.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Hero, People, Giving

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• The Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent to President Bush for his signature. This piece of legislation is an important piece of the border security puzzle.

  Randy Neugebauer

  Important, President, Signatures

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• The Lazysphere - a working definition - is a group of bloggers who I won't name by name, but you can spot them a mile away. Rather than create new ideas or pen thoughtful essays, they simply glom on to the latest news with another "me too" blog post.

  Steve Rubel

  Funny, Thoughtful, Names

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• Prison service vans that travel 90 miles to take a prisoner 90 yards; paedophiles free to leer at children in the very parks where they have committed horrific crimes.

  Trevor Phillips

  Children, Yards, Parks

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• Mile tracks put more emphasis on the driver. On the longer tracks, you can drive flat out all the way around, so it's more of an engineering exercise. On a mile, you can't run flat out. You're constantly in traffic, there's more driver involvement.

  Buddy Rice

  Running, Exercise, Engineering

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• By 1931, after a few years' experience of flying scheduled airlines, those planes were operating at roughly 600 times the safety of the space shuttle. I look at safety not in terms of fatalities per passenger-mile, but when you get in and close the door, what is the risk of dying on this flight?

  Burt Rutan

  Doors, Years, Space

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• You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, "I'm a writer," it would be gone. You wouldn't see anything for miles - even the dust would be running away.

  Ali Smith

  Running, Dust, Would Be

  "Life stories". Interview with Louise France, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2005.

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• I run a solid 4-6 miles at a time, and over the last year two years I've gotten really into SoulCycle. It's sort of an evolved form of spinning.

  Gail Simmons

  Running, Years, Two

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• The convergence of the Rhone and Saone. Paul Bocuse. The birthplace of cinema. Chateauneuf-du-Pape just a few miles down the road. It does not get much better than Lyon.

  Leonard Slatkin

  Birth Place, Doe, Cinema

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• Slow down. Enjoy life. It's tough to slow down if your mind is going a million miles a second. It's tough to slow down if you think what these people do here matters.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Thinking, People

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• I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed as my brainstorming speed.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Thinking, Limits, Speed

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• I grew up about 60 miles northwest of New York, in Middletown, NY.

  Aaron Tveit

  New York, Grew Up, Grew

  "PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Aaron Tveit". Interview with Kenneth Jones, www.playbill.com. July 24, 2010.

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• 7 Mile is like an Ave. Back in the days it was poppin' in the summer time.

  Obie Trice

  Summer, Summer Time

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

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• Everything officers go through in any chase anywhere in the country, but amped up 100 times! I'm right in the thick of things in a car going like 80 miles an hour, and doing 360s in the middle of the road. It was a wild ride.

  Amy Weber

  Country, Car, Hours

  "Amy Weber bikini babe". Interview with AskMen, www.askmen.com.

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• My big running discovery was around Stanley Park in Vancouver. Miss it. That's a six-mile loop. Now I smile when I get four miles done. Age is a beast.

  Michael Weatherly

  Running, Discovery, Missing

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• The kundalini energy enables us to do things that would not happen otherwise, to apply an occult pressure, to use energy to create effects perhaps thousands of miles away.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Energy, Use

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• When your mind is clear and your third eye is open, you can see and know things that are taking place thousands of miles away from you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Eye, Buddhism, Mind

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• I see myself being married to my girlfriend and backpacking all over the world. If I can go out and do a 15-mile hike and climb a 12,000-ft. peak, I'm good to go.

  Matt Long

  Girlfriend, World, Backpacking

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• I write about nerds who go the extra mile and become rock stars.

  Ben Mezrich

  Stars, Writing, Rocks

  Twitter post from Dec 20, 2015

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• I grew up in Glen Ellyn, which is about 20 miles west of Chicago. I attended Glenbard South High School and University of Illinois. I didn't study acting until I moved to Los Angeles after college, but the fact that I was raised in the Chicago area set the stage for all of my comedic and acting sensibilities.

  Ryan McPartlin

  School, College, Illinois

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

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• Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.

  Ed Markey

  School, Technology, Engineering

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• I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city.

  Alexei Sayle

  Years, Cities, House

  "Alexei Sayle's Granada". Interview with York Membery, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 11, 2010.

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• Like Hillary Clinton, I too have traveled hundreds of thousands of miles around the globe. But unlike her, I have actually accomplished something.

  Carly Fiorina

  Accomplishment, Flying, Clinton

  "Possible GOP Presidential Candidates Woo Iowa". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. January 26, 2015.

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