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We are just not made up to be middle distance runners.

~Alberto Juantorena

Topics: Distance Just Made Middle Runners Up

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An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it.

~Alejandro Amenabar

Topics: About Award Awards Because Consider Creating Distance Feels Filmmaker Get Great Like Lot Means Obsessed Oscar Some Things Think Ultimate You I Think

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I feel that a lot of human spirituality stems from the belief that we are unique and special in the universe, but maybe we are just what happens when there is proper temperature and proper distance from the right type of star.

~Alex Honnold

Topics: Belief Distance Feel Happens Human Just Lot Maybe Proper Right Special Spirituality Star Stems Temperature Type Unique Universe I Feel

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I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.

~Alexander Payne

Topics: About Asked Constant Distance Else Failure Failures Films Get Gives How Humor Life Sense Some Something Well You Your

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It's now possible to play and take lessons from any place of the world. The concept of physical distance doesn't exist in the online world, and that is so cool!

~Alexandra Kosteniuk

Topics: Any Concept Cool Distance Exist Lessons Now Online Physical Place Play Possible Take World

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Ferguson shows the power of social media. This could have not been a story. Or it could have just been a local story. Or it could have been something that we saw only from a distance, through the usual filters. Instead, it gathered steam.

~Alexandra Petri

Topics: Been Could Distance Filters Gathered Instead Just Local Media Only Power Saw Shows Social Social Media Something Steam Story Through Usual

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At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God.

~Alfred Noyes

Topics: Able Above Beasts Been Certain City Distance Evolution God Had Higher Him Himself His Hold Lay Least Level Man Order Perish Raised See Shining Stage Things Towers Which

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I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.

~Alice Sebold

Topics: Distance Gain Ignorance Something Think Way You

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The 200 meters is my baby. To me, it's the perfect distance. It's still a true sprint, but it unravels more. You get to enjoy the race a little bit more than the 100.

~Allyson Felix

Topics: Baby Bit Distance Enjoy Get Little Little Bit Me More Perfect Race Sprint Still Than True You

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Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Advantages Devil Disagreeable Distance His Invention Keep Making Person Some Telephone Which

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