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“They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.”
Earvin Magic Johnson
“Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best”
Michael Johnson
“Basically we've got the whole McKay Events Center stadium and we're just trying to get the most amount of entertainment possible under one roof.”
Aaron Browning
“You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.”
Mark Twain
“Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We learn geology the morning after the earthquake”
“A political victory, a rise in rents, the recovery of your sick, or return of your absent friend, or some other quite external event, raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.from "Self-Reliance"”
“A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us”
“A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.”
“The entire story of 'Elizabethtown' arrived quickly, ... a tale of love and loss and the discovery of family roots in the aftermath of a very black turn of events in the life of a young shoe designer, Orlando Bloom. It was a story that would start with an ending and end with a beginning and, I hoped, give a sense of what it was to be truly alive.”
Cameron Crowe