Yvon Chouinard Quotes
The reason it was so scary was that there was only one climber capable of rescuing us, and that was Layton Kor, and he was in Colorado.
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When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.
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Montenegro belongs to a rare number of countries that have managed to make progress on every internationally recognisable indicator.
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Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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You have to recognize at some point that even though you have the passion and creative level to be able to do something, you might have to do a lot of prep. Sometimes you just can't do it as quickly as you want to do it.
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
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We felt like, first and foremost, we were songwriters.
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Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.
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Victory Over Violence is an organization that was created to help fund shelters for women and children.
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Most of the largest software companies in the world today are based on Oracle, and they were once startups.
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When we were on the farm, we were isolated, not just by geography but by the primitive living conditions: no electricity, no running water and, of course, no computer, no phone.
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We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?
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You spend so much to buy these media net stories or full page ads to build perception... you can rather save this money and put it in the making or marketing of the film.
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The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
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I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.
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I think Cate Blanchett is fabulous - she just shines in everything she does - and I'm a big Susan Sarandon fan.
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Her mother, Laurie Simmons, is a contemporary artist, and my stepmother, Cindy Sherman, is a photographer, so they've known each other forever. Lena and I were often at the same dinner parties when we were kids.
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I come from a family of strong women, who have been positive role models for me.
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I'd describe myself as a sexual libertarian - but I'm not a libertine. "To each his own" is my motto.
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You can raise welts like nobody else, as we dance to the Masochism Tango.
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You have three types of friends in life: Friends for a reason, friends for a season, and friends for a lifetime.
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Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
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I may not be Meryl Streep, but I am not untalented.
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The reason it was so scary was that there was only one climber capable of rescuing us, and that was Layton Kor, and he was in Colorado.
