Edmund Hillary Quotes
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I'm responsible. I even did a commercial for MTV saying how I was going to register to vote. And I still haven't.
Sam Kinison -
Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.
Wayne Kramer -
I have never pressurized a producer to do me any favor.
Kabir Bedi -
A man in debt is so far a slave.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.
Edmund Hillary -
Some people are just not going to like me and they're not going to like my work. But that doesn't mean I'm a bad person.
Jennifer Lynch
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When a leader in the Church inspires council members with vision, he helps them focus on their real mission so that they are ministering to people rather than merely administering programs.
M. Russell Ballard -
It makes one’s head heavy and giddy, as if one were not looking back down the receding perspectives of time but rather down on the earth from a great height, from one of those towers whose tops are lost to view in the clouds
W. G. Sebald -
It's not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there's a pretty good chance you'd call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then.
Paul McCartney The Beatles -
The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.
Garry Winogrand -
It's not a pleasure torturing actors, although some of them enjoy it.
Ang Lee -
If our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.
B. W. Powe
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I would not a bit mind sleeping in the cool grass in summer, and when winter came on sheltering myself by the warm close-thatched rick, or under the penthouse of a great barn, provided I had love in my heart.
Oscar Wilde -
You never want to be completely alone at what you do. Competition is good for everyone.
Marc Benioff -
In home life contentment is an essential to daily comfort. One discontented person in the house creates an atmosphere fatal to tranquillity.
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster -
I don't mean to be a diva, but some days you wake up and you're Barbara Streisand.
Courtney Love -
People say modernism killed poetry for them: it doesn't rhyme, it doesn't touch a popular musical oral tradition. Years ago, you memorized and read poetry; it was one of the things you were forced to learn. Now it has tiny role in school.
Campbell McGrath -
Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?
Thomas Carlyle
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An important aspect of the Eurasian worldview is an absolute denial of Western civilization. In the opinion of the Eurasians, the West with its ideology of liberalism is an absolute evil.
Aleksandr Dugin -
The room...is converted into a weapon, ... made to demonstrate that everything is a weapon, the objects themselves, and with them the fact of civilization, are annihilated: there is no wall, no window, no door, no bathtub, no refrigerator, no door, no chair, no bed.
Elaine Scarry -
There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.
Edmund Hillary