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"  Miller has produced more than five hundred films, most about skiing. He made his first while living in a trailer in Sun Valley. In a hundred years, all new people. If I ask anybody who learned to ski after the age of five, they can remember their first day of skiing -- what the weather was like, who they went with, what they had for lunch. I believe that&amp;#039;s because that first day on skis was the first day of total freedom in their life. Streets are straight, houses are square, and our bodies are round. We don&amp;#039;t belong there. We belong outside, doing stuff.  Oh yeah, there&amp;#039;s status in skiing. My house is bigger than yours. How many days did you ski last winter? Thirty-eight. Well, this liar doesn&amp;#039;t have a chance, because the guy who asked him skied thirty-nine. But when you ask them if they ever saw the porcupine eating the bark off the tree on the way down: No.  When you get shit on from a height, you can walk around smelling, or you can go take a shower.  In World War II, Russia lost about ten million, Germany lost five million. We lost fifty-five hundred of the best marines in the world on Iwo Jima. Those guys, they&amp;#039;re the ones who ran out of the trenches, flew the airplanes, fought the wars. That was a two- or three-hundred-thousand-year-old gene pool getting killed. They would have been the grandparents of the world leaders today. And that&amp;#039;s my analysis of why there aren&amp;#039;t any great world leaders today.  One person out of one will die.  The best place in the world to ski is where you&amp;#039;re skiing that day. Interviewed by Cal Fussman, August 2, 2008 RELATED STORIES:  BODE MILLER:A Ski Racer Who Missed iPods as a Kid  WHAT I&amp;#039;VE LEARNED: More Wisdom and Damn Good Advice from Hundreds of Headliners!   "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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