Ueli Gegenschatz Quotes
BASE jumping is skydiving from fixed objects, like buildings, antennae, bridges and earth - meaning mountains, cliffs. It's for sure - for me - it's the ultimate feeling of being in free fall, with all the visual references.
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With so many millions of titles available, the books that will get talked about are the books that make readers talk about them.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.
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CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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I've been doing African dance all my life.
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It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people.
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I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.
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As long as the Pentagon bankrolls the Pakistan army to fight its wars, and NATO troops remain in Afghanistan, there will be quarrels, charges of infidelity, a reduction in the household allowance, perhaps a separation - but a divorce? Never.
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Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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The level of confidence women are able to build in women-only groups is important.
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People who think they are free eventually end up slaves to their own desires, and those who give their freedom away to the only One you can trust with that freedom eventually get it back.
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I was really intrigued by the idea of using live streams of data that's relevant to real people, and that would allow us to reflect and learn about ourselves.
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What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.
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I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.
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BASE jumping is skydiving from fixed objects, like buildings, antennae, bridges and earth - meaning mountains, cliffs. It's for sure - for me - it's the ultimate feeling of being in free fall, with all the visual references.
