Jimmy Chin Quotes
I grew up studying martial arts, playing violin, swimming competitively, so I already had athletic focus, discipline and training. When I brought that to climbing, I became passionate.
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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I don't think that - you know, I'm sure that there's guys that are doing it, because I'm sure in every sport there's players who want to get the edge. But I think that it's been blown overly - way more than guys are using it in our game.
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A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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For me, writing about hotels is like writing about being in a parallel universe. The sense of voyeurism, and the sense of removedness, and there are all these people silently above you and next to you.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.
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When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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I had a stalker break into my house a couple times. They didn't leave any fingerprints or take anything - I was being followed.
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Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
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As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.
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As my other obligations are beginning to take an inordinate amount of time, I have asked to step down as WMG's board chairman, effective January 31, 2012. However, I will remain a director of the company and in that way, continue my association with Warner Music and its extraordinary people.
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I will not be collateral damage in a presidential campaign, nor will I be a woman bullied by Hillary Clinton.
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The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
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Britain's way of dealing with disability is just to try and pretend it's not happening. A swift sweep under the carpet.
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I think there are some people for whom words are like food.
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Having a think about whether you can afford 'this' or 'that' is a good discipline to have, to maximise what you can achieve to the highest standard.
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Here's what I had: I had the arrogance of saying I'd like to be in a 'good' movie, so in fact, when I was hot, I turned down a lot of stuff because I didn't think I wanted to watch it.
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I grew up studying martial arts, playing violin, swimming competitively, so I already had athletic focus, discipline and training. When I brought that to climbing, I became passionate.
