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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I wasn't pampered the way a Tyrone Power was.
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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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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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By the way, I understand that now you can have the Times delivered to your door here in the Twin Cities.
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I'm excited to join my brother-in-law Ken Thomson every Tuesday night on SiriusXM to recap all of the awesome NFL action, and to find out what in the Wylde world of sports is going on.
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I'm a voracious reader. I also have a ton of favorite TV shows I'm addicted to.
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I came to Washington with a pledge to be a fiscally conservative.
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I represent a district in Nevada, a state that is home to more wild horses than all other states combined.
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Alabama citizens, like the vast majority of Americans, respect and value the meaning of decency, and appreciate public institutions that reflect the common values of our society.
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On the bottom shelf M. kept the books from his childhood days: Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, the Iliad - they are described in The Noise of Time and happened to have been saved by M.'s father. Most of them later perished in Kalinin when I was fleeing from the Germans. The way we have scurried to and fro in the twentieth century, trapped between Hitler and Stalin!
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A passion for the dramatic art is inherent in the nature of man.
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Do not let circumstances defeat you. You can if you think you can.
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The only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances.
