I ran the Iditarod twice. I finished once. I came in 42nd or 43rd place out of 70 plus teams the first time, and I scratched 80 miles from Nome the second time. You can read about my experience in the race in my books 'Woodsong' and 'Winterdance.'
The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.
Few American presidents are held in higher esteem than Thomas Jefferson. Though historians have scrutinized every phase of his long public career and found him wanting in a number of respects, he holds an unshakable place in the pantheon of American heroes.
What, do you think I'm here to be second place, brother?
One thing I learnt early on my career is that personal gratification takes second place.
In New York, they like winners. They don't like second place.
It's only first place in NHL. Nobody remembers who's second place. Everyone remembers the winner.
In my career, I finished in second place six times. I played on teams that were in it to the very end. It's frustrating.
I'm going to show the difference between the champ and second place.
Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.
England was a delightful and stimulating place for a young academic, although by present standards, the laboratory facilities were primitive. There were almost no research grants and no secretarial assistance, even for Sherrington.
I didn't know how I was going to deal with 'Disobedience' because it takes place in such a specific and often secretive world.
I'm insisting, quite unapologetically, on the need to have these appropriate security measures in place to protect the voters, which is my principal charge.
I worry when each of us is seduced by visions of the future that have no place for the other.
The suicide arrives at the conclusion that what he is seeking does not exist; the seeker concludes that what he has not yet looked in the right place.
Segregation has no place in the education system.
I had a client who was getting ready for the Oscars, and all she ate was one meal a day - of two boiled eggs! I was able to persuade her to add some almonds and a protein shake and some vitamin supplements. It's a self-defeating strategy. You need to eat enough, particularly protein, to build lean and toned muscle in the first place.
Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.
One of the terrific aspects of MIT in those days was the enormous variety of experimental work that either took place there or was talked about in seminars by outside speakers aggressively recruited by the faculty.
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
