Yvon Chouinard Quotes
The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process.
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My sisters are amazing. My sister is my business partner, my twin. She's an amazing producer, writer. You know, we're just grinding and trying to make my mother proud as well as God.
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The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it's all about the building and the intensity of support on the far left and far right wings of both parties. And we have forgotten about the people here in the middle.
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Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.
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I applaud anyone who wants to take on the load that comes with being President of the United States. You really have to love your country to place yourself in that position.
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I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.
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I chose the Xperia based on its functions. Apart from using the phone to communicate, I also use it to take pictures. The image quality with this cell phone is great.
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Defending peace is the duty of all.
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If you're paralyzing your face in your 20s and 30s, you're not exercising the muscles that give it strength. My feeling is, laugh, cry, move your face.
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We solve last year's problems without thinking about the future.
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A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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I don't know where Hank Aaron will break Ruth's record but I can tell you one thing - ten years from the day he hits it three million people will say they were there.
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It's all about risk-taking when you're making an album. Don't be scared to do weird things sometimes.
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I don't want to be in somebody else's movie, and then they make all the money. I've gotten offers to do the movies, but I won't sell myself short and be in somebody else's movie, like 'Boyz N the Hood.' I don't think I woulda done that.
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules.
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I did five seasons of 'Baywatch,' and I did four seasons of 'VIP.' I've been around awhile.
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There's no one who has been living for centuries.
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Life goes not in a straight line, lad, but in a circle. The first half we spend venturing as far as the world's end from home and kin and stillness, and the latter half brings us back, by roundabout ways but surely, to that state from which we set out.
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I'm a guy who's all about peace, love, and happiness. I'm a bit of a hippie.
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Most of what we see are white people.
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I'm pretty gritty.
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Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.
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The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process.
