Jimmy Chin Quotes
As a professional climber and photographer, I am asked to shoot in a lot of situations with a lot of different people. Sometimes I'm with the hardest, most seasoned alpinists in the world. Sometimes I'm hanging out with celebrities doing a benefit climb.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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I had to work with a psychiatrist.
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My dream role is Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.
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It's super dope when you connect with something personally.
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I think we respond well when we do something well.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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The one thing that shaped my life was when I was 15 or 16: I knew I wanted to be a journalist. And not just a journalist, but a journalist in the Middle East, and to go back to the Arab world and try to understand what it meant to be Lebanese.
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Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time. Remember this in moments of despair. If you find that writing is hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things that people do
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I hate a messy closet. I totally freak out when my closet is messy and I can't find anything.
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All things unrevealed belong to the kingdom of mystery.
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The Christian man must aim at that complete obedience to God in which life finds its highest happiness, its greatest good, its perfect consummation, its peace.
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As a professional climber and photographer, I am asked to shoot in a lot of situations with a lot of different people. Sometimes I'm with the hardest, most seasoned alpinists in the world. Sometimes I'm hanging out with celebrities doing a benefit climb.
