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«I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16-seater van. I was only 18. I mean I look young now, but then I looked about 12.»
«Do what you know best; if you're a runner, run, if you're a bell, ring»
«Never for a second did I think of myself as the sexiest guy in the world. When I was a kid, I thought I was the strongest man in the world. Then, the fastest runner and then the smartest person in the world. One by one my delusions got shut down. Now I just see myself as the lamest guy in the world.»
Author: Jack Black
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Delusions, fastest, lamest, one by one, runner, runners, runner up, sexiest, shut down, The Runner
«I was born to be a runner. I simply love to run. It's almost like the faster I go, the easier it becomes.»
Author: Mary Decker Slaney
(Runner)
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easy going, Easy to Love, faster, I go, runner, runners, runner up, The Runner
«The base paths belonged to me, the runner. The rules gave me the right. I always went into a bag full speed, feet first. I had sharp spikes on my shoes. If the baseman stood where he had no business to be and got hurt, that was his fault.»
Author: Ty Cobb
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at full speed, bag, belonged, first base, first baseman, runner, runners, runner up, spike, spikes, The Base, The Runner
«Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.»
«High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of generations a relay race in which everyone surpasses his predecessor, only to be surpassed by his successor. Without this relay race called history there would be no European art and what characterizes it: a longing for originality, a longing for change. Robespierre, Napoleon, Beethoven, Stalin, Picasso, they're all runners in the relay race, they all belong to the same stadium.»
Author: Milan Kundera
(Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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Beethoven, characterizes, Considering, European, napoleon, obsession, perversion, perversions, predecessor, relay, relayed, relay race, Robespierre, runner, runners, runner up, stadium, stadiums, successor, surpassed, surpasses, The Runner, The Sequence
«One time I snuck a ball on with me and when I went to winding up, I threw one of them balls to first and one to second. I was so smooth I picked off both runners and fanned the batter without that ump or the other team even knowing it.»
Author: Satchel Paige
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Sports
| Keywords:
batter, fanned, first team, picked, runner, runners, runner up, The Runner, threw, ump, winding
«The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one. Nay, it is obvious that the more active and swift the latter is the further he will go astray.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
astray, lame, outstrip, outstripped, outstripping, outstrips, runner, runners, runner up, The Runner
«In war there is no prize for runner-up.»
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