Jon Krakauer Quotes
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Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.
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Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
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The first time I heard Adam Feeney and Chester Stone Hansen's 'Vibez,' it was used in Drake's '0-100' as a sample.
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I am from a family of farmers from Budhana near Muzaffarnagar.
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What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else, the sand falls right into where you stood and you're gone, you're history.
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Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
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Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.
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Dinner parties are still highly popular, and I believe they always will be.
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I feel like you can be the best role model by being yourself.
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I never joined, but I used to go to church now and then. I liked it, because they always passed out plates of money at the end.
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But learned people can analyze for me why I fear hell and their implication is that there is no hell. But I believe in hell. Hell seems a great deal more feasible to my weak mind than heaven. No doubt because hell is a more earth-seeming thing. I can fancy the tortures of the damned but I cannot imagine the disembodied souls hanging in a crystal for all eternity praising God.
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A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.
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Purim is the birthday of the first Schutz-Jude , the first Jewish toady to foreign royalty.
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I really do not care what the white world is doing. I care about black people building the monument on slavery.
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People are just like farm equipment. They rust out quicker than they wear out.
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Whether a watercolor is inferior to an oil [painting], or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence.
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There's a good old boys' network out there that's hard to penetrate and it's not always in the best interest of the party or for conservative principles.
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I love the feeling that you get when you can really laugh with a man and be natural and not always think that there's a sexual element going on. For me, flirting with a man means making fun of myself and trying to open myself and be very unpretentious.
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What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.
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impossible is not a word
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I realize that Kenya and America are very different, but experiences like this warned me that my own favorite beliefs in the miracles of free enterprise and the boundless opportunities to be had in America were largely untrue.
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The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences.
