Yvon Chouinard Quotes
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
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I love hillwalking and have been doing a lot of climbing.
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The Steelers run a great organization.
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I'm not too picky about guitars. I love to collect them, mostly oddballs, but I'm not married to any brand or model. Whatever guitar has the best character for the song is the one I want to use, because if you've got a style, you're going to sound like yourself no matter what guitar you play.
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Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own country than to love someone else's?
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It is unjust and absurd of those advancing in years, to expect of the young that confidence should come all and only on their side: the human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
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Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete laws, slowing blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic. Physicians call this arteriosclerosis; historians see decline of empire.
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Businesses and households react to lower rates by investing and spending more. Lower rates also support the prices of housing and financial assets such as stocks and bonds.
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When I'm scoring something like a string quartet, it's all notated music, so it's meticulously written in the score, which is very different than doing things by ear.
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It's all about giving it your best in whatever you've got.
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But I think the possibility of a black and white society feeding each other's expertises, living harmoniously, will probably go along in fits and starts now but at least it has a great constitution now to back it up.
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It's important that I know what I'm doing before I assume responsibility over something as significant as the actors' guild.
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I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure.
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When it came to 'Binge,' it wasn't my intention to get on a little soapbox and have a teaching moment. It was more, 'Here are things that have happened to me; here's what I've learned from it. If you'd like to learn from it too, great; if you just like the entertainment aspect, that's fine too.'
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If you kill the arts, you kill love, and you kill progress.
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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.
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I used to eat Danny Kaye's food. I had his Chinese and Italian meals, and that was as good as it gets.
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When mountain-climbing is made too easy, the spiritual effect the mountain exercises vanishes into the air.
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Man has evolved a mutual relationship with nature on earth, but his power to change its surface has grown so tremendously that this may become a curse instead of a blessing.
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Politicians and bureaucrats are the new upper class in Norway. It is an upper class that is growing by an increasing number of top-paid politicians in municipalities and counties. They let the people suffer, but let themselves go free.
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I thought I knew everything when I came to Rome, but I soon found I had everything to learn.
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The climbing as a whole is not very esthetic or enjoyable; it is merely difficult.
