Yvon Chouinard Quotes
We choose to believe that the granite is alive. If life is movement, then rock - with its atoms flying around like stars in cosmos - is alive.
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
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I don't want to be the policeman of Lebanon. It's not the business of Israel. Israel was not created to serve as a policeman of the region.
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If I go out there and am myself, and I do what makes me comfortable and what I think is true to my artistry, and they don't like it, then that's fine. I walk off stage, and I know there's nothing there's nothing I could have done differently.
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People associate girls with long blonde hair with the girls in 'Clueless' or 'Legally Blonde.' You can't be smart and educated and have an opinion because you are supposed to be stupid.
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A lot of my writer friends - some of whom are brilliant - work when the Muse calls them, for lack of a better description. You know, days of nothing, then this creative burst where they write for 36 hours straight fueled by caffeine and idealism.
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I'm engaged to Hollywood. If there's something I find I have to do, I'll do it. Otherwise, I'll just stay home and have a vacation.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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Charity plays an important role in upholding the values and advancing the work of the United Nations.
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A man never apologizes for the fact that he has to work. He might say, 'Hey, I am so sorry my hours were long today,' but he'd never feel he has to explain the very fact that he has a career. Once I stopped apologizing, I noticed both my kids also stopped complaining and asking me 'why' I worked.
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Winning one league title at Roma, to me, is worth winning 10 at Juventus or Real Madrid.
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Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.
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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
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I did not believe that the public was sophisticated enough to understand that a newsman could wear several hats and that we had the ability to turn off - nearly, you can't say perfectly, but nearly - all of our prejudices and biases.
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Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy.
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The day had gone by just as days go by. I had killed it in accordance with my primitive and retiring way of life.
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In the position of tension in which we are, between churchmanship and citizenship, our churchmanship is much freer than if we had better harmony between Church and State.
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We choose to believe that the granite is alive. If life is movement, then rock - with its atoms flying around like stars in cosmos - is alive.
