Jon Krakauer Quotes
The only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances.
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I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.
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People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable.
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The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.
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I'm not the type of guy to go so deep with the concept songs, but there's deep thought in everything. Maybe it's not just a repetitive hook telling you what the song is about - you have to use your brain a little bit.
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I gravitate to the roles, not necessarily television or film. It's just the fact that, for me, the most interesting roles have been in television.
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My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself.
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There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.
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I wasn't pampered the way a Tyrone Power was.
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I started writing 'The Lord of Opium' in 2008 and produced about 80 pages before disaster struck. Three eye operations nearly put an end to my career.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.
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Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.
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I have a long-standing interest in what I like to think of as 'forbidden knowledge:' methods of unarmed killing, lock picking, breaking and entry, spy stuff, and other things that the government wants only a few select individuals to know.
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Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.
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When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.
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I respect the Hall of Fame, and if they think that I'm worthy enough, I would be very honored. And if they don't, I gave it all that I had to this game.
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People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
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I'm intrigued by people who are super adept at manipulating their own image. We all do it to a certain extent.
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The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.
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Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
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I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.
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The only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances.
