"Running has taken me in, and continues to comfort, heal and challenge me in all kinds of magical ways. I am not a 'good runner' because I am me. I am a good 'me' because I am a runner."

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Source : Kristin Armstrong (2011). “Mile Markers: The 26.2 Most Important Reasons Why Women Run”, p.3, Rodale

Kristin Armstrong

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“I am an Iranian by birth and of my Islamic faith. I am also an American Citizen and I seek to help change America to be a more Islamic country. My faith guides me and I feel like it is going well in the transition of using freedom of religion in America against itself.”
“Hollywood is great for entertaining people, it's a wonderful business but it's make-believe, you must remember that. That's one of the most important things to remember and the distinction in your own life, otherwise people get lost in their own fame, and it makes them unhappy.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Marriage is about compromise; it's about doing something for the other person, even when you don't want to.”
“I'd been through so much, falling short again and again, and only recently had found a place where who I was, right now, was enough.”
“My parents are my backbone. Still are. They're the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.”
“But my bill, the Drill Now Act, would actually expedite the whole process, let the Interior Department move ahead quicker... it would stop the radical environmental lawyers from delaying for years with frivolous lawsuits the leasing of the property.”
“Times like this, when she slips her hand into mine and holds on tight, and our husband becomes just a shadow in the doorway.”
“What is the origin of the urge, the fascincation that drives physicists, mathematicians, and presumably other scientists as well? Psychoanalysis suggests that it is sexual curiosity. You start by asking where little babies come from, one thing leads to another, and you find yourself preparing nitroglycerine or solving differential equations. This explanation is somewhat irritating, and therefore probably basically correct.”

Source : David Ruelle (1993). “Chance and Chaos”, p.164, Princeton University Press

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