"Americans are so spoiled. They think you always have to have a car, whereas I got away on my own two feet."

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

Lee Harvey Oswald

#Thinking Quotes #Two Quotes #Feet Quotes

“I order various types of breakfast and lunches. I do not just come in and order hamburgers all the time. I order the specials, pancakes, bacon and eggs.”
“You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.”
“I think the public is very reluctant to get involved in more foreign wars, especially in the Middle East. And they understand, implicitly, that we go to war in the Middle East because of oil. And if we don't want to go to war in the Middle East, then we have to do something about the oil problem. And I think that view is gaining ground in the U.S.”

Source : "The Permanent Energy Crisis". Interview with Julian Brookes, www.motherjones.com. June 19, 2006.
“I haven't seen too many American distance men on the international scene willing to take risks. I saw some U.S. women in Barcelona willing to risk, more than men. The Kenyans risk. Steve Prefontaine risked. I risked - I went through the first half of the Tokyo race just a second off my best 5000 time.”
“The only thing that lives beyond the grave is the wake you have created by the way you have lived your life; the goals you have set; the distance away from the normal you dared to tread.”

Source : Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.
“The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest species of literary exertion, and that novel reading was a dangerous luxury and an utter waste of time.”
“Nobody wanted me. I just kept writing books and learning my craft. Most writers aren't very good in the beginning.”
“I'd rather have more heart than talent any day.”

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