Jimmy Chin Quotes
When you're climbing something as challenging as Meru, it's all about efficiency. Even a decision as small as what to eat for dinner would expend energy you need for making other, more dramatic decisions.
Quotes to Explore
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.
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DMs are a lot like email - and should have the same privacy protections as a mailed letter.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
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Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.
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We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.
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Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.
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Right now the focus is the album that is released and then the tour coming up. After the tour they will let us know about the options and offers that came in for us.
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People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.
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When I see the Ten Most Wanted Lists... I always have this thought: If we'd made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn't be wanted now.
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Sometimes I feel like a man; sometimes I feel like a child.
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I became aesthetically obsessed with language. And 'literary artist' - poet and novelist - is a calling. You are called to it the way preachers are called to preaching the gospel.
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The fun part for me is to just really push that envelope.
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Don't punish small businesses with over-regulation.
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I do find the sight of small children eating very moving. Watch the way their tiny fingers clamp the cutlery. The exaggeratedly precise way they move cups or glasses to their lips.
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When we get government off the backs of our job creators, small businesses have a better chance of thriving. And when small businesses thrive, so does our economy.
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When you're climbing something as challenging as Meru, it's all about efficiency. Even a decision as small as what to eat for dinner would expend energy you need for making other, more dramatic decisions.
