Ran Quotes
1175 Ran quotes by 920 unique authors
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The toughest trail I ever ran was the Escarpment in the Catskills of New York State. This was an 18-mile race through Rip Van Winkle…
— Don Kardong
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I ran for Congress in 1996 to help Ted Kennedy pass a comprehensive health insurance reform bill.
— Jim McGovern
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In 2004, I ran for Congress and lost. In 2006, I ran again and won - defeating Richard Pombo, a seven-term Republican incumbent.
— Jerry McNerney
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I ran the effort to bring the 2012 Olympic Games to New York City. We lost - on a global scale. To my surprise, life…
— Daniel L. Doctoroff
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In that first blow to the deaf walls of those who have everything, the blood of our people, our blood, ran generously to wash away…
— Subcomandante Marcos
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My first year of university, I ran around and signed up for these clubs, and I noticed they were all drama clubs: really lame, artsy…
— Penelope Mitchell
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You only need to look at Jane Austen to see how crossed wires can become a defining aspect of romantic life. Then again, if the…
— Mariella Frostrup
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Performing arts was something I was always part of. That was may be the only common thread that ran throughout my education, throughout my schooling…
— Nimrat Kaur
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My parents took me to the Bronte parsonage in England when I was a teenager. I had a fight with my mum, burst into tears,…
— Eleanor Catton
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I ran on the platform of moderation and won the election by a large margin. By virtue of the strong mandate that I received from…
— Hassan Rouhani
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Henry M. Jackson, congressman and senator from 1941 until his death in 1983, achieved far greater renown than most legislators, ran for president in 1972…
— Elliott Abrams
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When I first ran for Congress in the 1990s, my background as an openly gay Asian was one of the focal points of the campaign,…
— Mark Takano
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I love Vince McMahon. He came up with the Kurt Angle character. He ran with it, and then I was able to run with it.…
— Kurt Angle
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My last two years of high school, I did work-study half the day, and I ran the restaurant. It was just this little restaurant, but…
— Michael Mina
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The reason I ran in 2006 was to make my district one of the fifteen that at the time it would have taken to switch…
— John Yarmuth
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When President Obama first unveiled his gun control proposals recommending a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines and better background checks, there seemed to…
— Robert Dallek
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A lot of the early adoption of WordPress was actually from thousands and millions of individually hosted instances, so a lot of the people who…
— Matt Mullenweg
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The Republicans are not anti-Latinos. You know, I tell the story all the time that the Tea Party is the one that has actually brought…
— Raul Labrador
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My mum and dad ran a family cafe in Sligo for 35 years and worked long hours. We grew up in a very hard-working family…
— Shane Filan
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I supported Pat Toomey when he ran in 2010. I gave him money in September of 2009 because I wanted him to be the U.S.…
— Karl Rove
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At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected…
— J. G. Ballard
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I ran into a couple of guys who were boxers. They talked me into working out at their gym. I became obsessed with boxing and…
— Unknown Author
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I ran track in high school very competitively, and then ran it D-1 at Boston University. I ran there on an athletic scholarship and chose…
— Uzo Aduba
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I always said a prayer before I ran, and my prayer was to win. My prayer was that God would allow me to run my…
— Gail Devers
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Dad was a very gentle, sweet man. Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family. She ran the roost with a steel fist,…
— Tony Scott
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