Gabrielle Roth
Dancer
"Between the head and feet of any given person is a billion miles of unexplored wilderness."
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Miles
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Tupac Shakur
Rapper, Actor, Activist
"If you could walk a mile in my shoes you'd be crazy too."
Frank Sinatra
Singer, Actor
"You've either got or you haven't got style, and if you've got it you stand out a mile."
Matsuo Basho
Poet
"Come, butterfly It's late- We've miles to go together."
Zig Ziglar
Author, Motivational Speaker
"There's no traffic jam on the extra mile."
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"Greens are a dish that most Southerners would walk a mile for."
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"You'd have to walk a thousand miles in my shoes just to see what its like to be me!!"
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"Go the extra mile. It makes your boss look like an incompetent slacker."
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"Put 'going the extra mile' to work as part of one's daily habit"
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"I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis."
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"I have miles to go before I sleep."
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"The big rewards come to those who travel the second, undemanded mile."
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"Start going the extra mile and opportunity will follow you."
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"Nothing can be done well at a speed of forty miles a day. The multitude of mixed, novel impressions rapidly piled on one another make only a dreamy, bewildering, swirling blur, most of which is unrememberable."
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"The journey with a 1000 miles begins with one step."
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"A good horse makes short miles."
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"HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT FOR YOU. HATE. HATE."
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"I can't say, over the miles, that I had learned what I had wanted to know because I hadn't known what I wanted to know. But I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know."
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"The Self is the one thing you can discover, not by travelling miles, but by being very still inside your own being and saying to the Supreme, Yes, absorb me."
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"Good horses make short miles."
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"All the earth colours of the painter's palette are out there in the many miles of badlands."
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"Oh, I can spot a phoney a mile away."
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"When I say I am going to run three miles, I run five. With that mentality, it is actually difficult to lose."
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"I throw 70 miles an hour. That’s throwing like a girl."
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"There are never any traffic jams on the extra mile."
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