But he read a lot of books, and he watched other athletes compete.
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He has read 50 books on the poet and even used extracts from his work in his own speeches.
He learned Portuguese, Latin and Spain's official language, Castilian, so that he could read geography books and try and map the world.
In the House, where he sat for Minnesota's Fourth District from 1949 to 1959, he would pointedly read books in committee meetings.
Yet they were in awe of Dr. Fox, partly because he had read so many books.
He had read one of my books on a plane flight and liked the techniques.
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On the way from Washington, Clinton showed a reporter a duffel bag full of books he wants to read during his summer break.
And most interesting, he also asks them to read Western books on anthropology, particularly as it deals with tribes in the Middle East.
Kavanaugh holed up in a rented house just above the Sunset Strip and read physics books while he tried to figure out what to do next.
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"A key criticism is that they are not accessible to a group of people whose depression impairs their ability to concentrate and thus read books, " he said.
New Chief Executive William Lynch recently admitted he doesn't even read many printed books any more.
He bought the books and planned to read them and complete the exercises.
" Of the ones he did read, he said, "I was never all that crazy about the books.
Spiegelman says he learned to read from Batman and other comic books.
"It's what I think people read my books for, " he said.
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His application listed 26 books he said he'd read between August 1969 and January 1970 while writing his dissertation on educational systems in the Belgian Congo.
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He announced that he would take the time out to read about 50 books and possibly travel to Antarctica.
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He has acted in over 200 radio plays, read Bill Bryson's travel books and has won Sony Awards for radio acting and writing.
So Gilder took to the quadrangle once more and read another ten dozen books, this time on light and the electromagnetic spectrum, until he could pass for the ghost of Richard Feynman, sans bongo drums.
As a youngster, he says, he struggled with attention-deficit disorder and dyslexia, which still make it difficult for him to read long documents or books.
If the man who was Shakespeare regularly relied on books not yet translated from Italian, French, and Spanish, then he must have been able to read in Italian, French, and Spanish.
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