Running Quotes - Page 39

• Donald Trump was, you know, obviously a very important businessman, billionaire, he was a reality show star and I think that he has had more success running for president than probably even he imagined.

  Joy-Ann Reid

  Stars, Reality, Thinking

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• When I lived in the city, I had learned to close my door against a lot of the noise, but when I open my door here, I'm not opening into the possibility that I'm going to run into somebody or be faced with a hundred choices about what I'm going to do, or which cafe I'm going to go to, or which way to distract myself.

  Dani Shapiro

  Doors, Cities, Choices

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Speaking specifically about the memoir, I know that's a criticism that people can have about my work. When I look at the young men's lives, if they're reduced to the worst thing they've done, then it's easy for them to become a stereotype. I keep running into that with newspaper articles that are very short.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Men, People, Criticism

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think when I started acting it was the first time I got the freedom of expression. I was able to express certain emotions and feelings that I could put into other characters, so it was a good way for me to run away from ho I personally was. I could be a ninja, I could be a pirate or I could be in a play y'know.

  Adam Beach

  Character, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.chud.com

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• There are many things I think about that never get to the point of becoming serious. In other words, I try to talk myself out of writing, sometimes for many years, and when I run out of arguments, I write.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Writing, Thinking, Years

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• I wasn't trying to write a corrective novel - that would just end up tasting like medicine, and I tried to stay away from polemics as best I could. I think that, if anything, Fobbit is my way of showing readers there's another side to war - the backstage of combat, if you will. If you play a word association game with Americans and say "war," what's the first thing that comes to mind? Soldiers running across a battlefield through a hail of bullets, right? Rambo, smoke, explosions. In Fobbit, I hope readers will see something a little different

  Dave Abrams

  War, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm a terrible sentence finisher. I think that's why I'm a songwriter. When you write a song, there are no rules, and I think that I talk as if there are no rules. But then I run this great risk of no one understanding me at all.

  Mirah

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You can choose not to be a performing musician. You can choose to just be a recording artist. But then you run into the problem of trying to earn a living and balancing the time that you spend working on your creative efforts to just getting the bills paid. You can go off the grid and live in a cabin and make whatever art you want and also provide all the sustenance you need and not interact with anybody else.

  Mirah

  Art, Effort, Creative

  Source: therumpus.net

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• As with most of my work, I started from the abstract, from research, building an intellectual model that slowly became internalized when the characters came alive. It's fascinating what happens to the model you've so assiduously assembled when characters are allowed to run rampant: things you thought essential are broken and other things are vastly improved.

  Lauren Groff

  Character, Broken, Intellectual

  Interview with Jason Skipper, therumpus.net. August 24, 2012.

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• I've never wanted to chuck my mortgage, drop the kids off at their grandparents' and run gloriously naked in fields of flax.

  Lauren Groff

  Kids, Grandparent, Naked

  Interview with Jason Skipper, therumpus.net. August 24, 2012.

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• Many years ago I also bought a house in Provence for about 70,000 francs. It had no electricity or running water, and no road leading to the house, but gradually we made improvements. It's my escape and I love it.

  Eric Idle

  Years, Water, House

  "Eric Idle: 'The BBC paid us £2,000 a series for Monty Python’". Interview with Angela Wintle, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 10, 2016.

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• Obama wants to build such things as smart electrical grids and high-speed rail lines, which will offer big environmental improvements. Another obvious thing is that large-scale project financing is virtually frozen, so a lot of renewable energy projects are on hold. If the system doesn't get unclogged before the developers run out of cash, they will be cancelled. Money matters, and we are racing against time.

  Denis Hayes

  Smart, Obvious Things, Racing

  "The Rumpus Interview with Earth Day organiser Denis Hayes". Interview with Melissa Price, therumpus.net. April 22, 2009.

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• Yoga has stopped me from destroying my joints after running. It slows me down. My brain and body can go into overdrive - yoga teaches me to focus on the moment and not get ahead of myself.

  Julia Stiles

  Yoga, Focus, Brain

  Interview with Laura Dawn, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I am very careful about what I eat, and I exercise pretty much every day, whether it be rock-climbing, running, Muay Thai, yoga, horse riding, stand-up paddleboarding, or plain and simple working out.

  Sebastian Roche

  Horse, Yoga, Exercise

  Interview with Robert Piper, nicheandnook.com. August 24, 2015.

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• Medical science in particular will get exponentially better, especially once computers will be powerful enough to digitally simulate entire human brains, meaning medical experiments that would normally take years can be digitally run taking only hours.

  Benjamin Stone

  Powerful, Years, Brain

  Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 31, 2013.

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• Bush had expertise in one thing: How to run a Presidential campaign. He understands campaigns and Presidential politics. He has no interest or disposition or I think probably - he's not stupid, but he's not bright, he's not a rocket scientist - he isn't interested in policy.

  John Dean

  Stupid, Thinking, Presidential

  Source: progressive.org

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• We actually created Twitter and Odeo at the same time. When we realized we didn't really want to be running Odeo anymore we looked around for anyone who wanted to buy Odeo, but not acquire us as a technology. But people aren't as interested in that.

  Biz Stone

  Technology, People, Want

  Source: therumpus.net

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• This whole world is run by brutes for the common and the stupid.

  Moby

  Stupid, World, Common

  "David Bowie EW Cover: Inside David Bowie and Moby's out-of-this-world 2002 tour". Interview with Jeff Gordinier, ew.com. January 11, 2016.

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• As I developed as an artist and studied art history, I noticed that all the great works were dealing with the human condition. [Art] had humor in it. It had sex in it. But it also had sorrow running through it.

  Eric Drooker

  Art, Sex, Sorrow

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I adore the work of Stephen Sondheim. I like musicales in general. They make surprisingly great running tapes.

  Laura Lippman

  Tape, Adore, Sondheim

  Interview with Jon Jordan, www.bookbrowse.com.

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• The most dangerous thing I've ever encountered was a run-in with Boko Haram around 2007 in a small town in Nigeria. I got caught along with the photographer I was working with, the same one I worked with on the Afghanistan book, Seamus Murphy. We were caught in an attack by a mob after Friday prayers. And the level of violence was so extreme. It was more violent than any other mob violence I have ever seen.

  Eliza Griswold

  Friday, Prayer, Book

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Equally important for the promotion of excellence in the university is an emphasis on shared governance. The faculty needs to be involved directly in the process of running the university and in the setting of priorities.

  Henry Rosovsky

  Priorities, Excellence, Important

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Shared governance is often the critical element that is missing in Asian universities, no matter how talented the faculty may be. Either it is ministries of education that are trying to run things, or in private institutions - those who control the funds. Neither group knows much about teaching and research.

  Henry Rosovsky

  Teaching, Missing, Trying

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• If we want to identify the great success of American research universities, and that success goes far beyond Harvard, we have to come back to the question of governance. Excellence requires a firewall between trusteeship, or government ministries, and the academic decision-making process. This American concept of shared governance wherein the faculty are engaged in running the university as part of a collaboration with the other stakeholders.

  Henry Rosovsky

  Government, Decision, Excellence

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• It is equally unreasonable to run a university as a "participatory democracy," the approach to governance that once existed in Europe. That approach in European institutions of higher learning was appealing to professors because it was democratic. But those institutions also suffered because they lacked an executive decision-making process; making changes became virtually impossible.

  Henry Rosovsky

  Europe, Decision, Democracy

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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