"I have been running since I was 7. I was trying to restructure the way my body was made instead of trying to master the way I ran. I would get so frustrated with my starts in practices that I would just cry. When I ran, I wouldn't even try to get out of the blocks, I would just run."

-- Florence Griffith Joyner

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“I know they're not getting divorced or anything, but when your parents argue it makes the whole universe seem like it's tipping, like everything could change if they got mad enough at each other, like the world isn't a safe place. And of course, that's true, isn't it? The world is not a safe place.”
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
“That happiness is to be attained through limitless material acquisition is denied by every religion and philosophy known to mankind, but is preached incessantly by every American television set.”

Source : Robert Neelly Bellah (1975). “The broken covenant: American civil religion in time of trial”, Harper San Francisco
“There is no corner of life where art is not needed. There is no corner of art where life is not needed.”
“When faced without a challenge, make one”

Source : Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler (2016). “Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World”, p.109, Simon and Schuster
“My favorite thing to do is eat and eat well.”
“Yes, many immigrants cherish the value of choice and opportunity and the value of education more than 7th or 8th generation Americans.”

Source : "[Flashback interview] Retired Senator Malcolm Wallop: 'The Great American Experiment'". Interview With Peter Evans, Helen Evans, www.ff.org. January 6, 2013.
“There are people I would like to work with. Its a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being in a wheelchair means that I cant really circulate. So I tend to stick to my own thing.”

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