Yvon Chouinard Quotes
Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person.Yvon Chouinard
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
Mahershala Ali -
I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.
Haley Joel Osment -
Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
Finley Peter Dunne -
To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
Yannick Noah -
You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.
Iris Apfel -
Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
Adam D'Angelo
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
Carl Sandburg -
I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
Patricia Ireland -
New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
Zubin Mehta -
I'm kind of embarrassed by how quickly I adjusted to L.A. I really love it. It's so pleasant.
Ed Helms -
Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.
M. F. K. Fisher -
He plants trees to benefit another generation.
Caecilius Statius
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I love iTunes as much as anybody. It's very convenient and very easy. But there is nothing like the vibe that you get when you walk into a record store. And I think a lot of people are still thrilled to spend a half hour there and go through the bins and make some purchases.
Gary Calamar -
There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.
Harold H. Greene -
I kind of liked the idea of filming musicians. I could like a musician and know, at the same time, maybe nobody else maybe liked them much or appreciated them.
D. A. Pennebaker -
At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.
Haile Gebrselassie -
I knew everything in the forest. I had a secret home tree, where I pretty much lived. I also liked rooftops and streetlamps. My parents would get calls saying 'He's out there again.'
Bas Rutten -
Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.
Zong Qinghou
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I'm not even sure who I really am sometimes.
G-Dragon -
Never having alone time is real tough on people.
Yakov Smirnoff -
While I continue to keep this Oath unviolated, may it be granted to me to enjoy life and the practice of the art, respected by all men, in all times! But should I trespass and violate this Oath, may the reverse be my lot!
Hippocrates -
You try to be arrogant in songs because you can't be in real life.
Chrissie Hynde Pretenders -
Having the chance to walk at New York Fashion Week for Yeezy and Milan Fashion Week for Alberta Ferretti and Max Mara in a hijab is so significant. It sends a message to young women everywhere that you can be beautiful for just being you.
Halima Aden -
Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person.
Yvon Chouinard