George Leigh Mallory Quotes
The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever.George Leigh Mallory
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
The virtues of the blockchain is that it would be that it's peer-to-peer settlement - no centralized settlement, no manipulation... And most importantly, there's nothing to capture. It's consensus based. It's stateless.
Patrick M. Byrne -
Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
Walter Dean Myers -
People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.
D. A. Pennebaker -
I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.
OMI -
How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
Ferdinand Marcos
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The liberals will surely argue that every person has the right to fall in love with no regard to religion, creed or gender, but I am not that liberal.
Yair Lapid -
When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
Maggie Gallagher -
A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
Wayne Dyer -
Since beginning my work in areas like addiction, for example, I have seen time and time again that the roots of poor mental health in adulthood are almost always present in unresolved childhood challenges.
Kate Middleton -
The ability to convince people of the wackiest notions - and both parties can do it - it's part of the dumbing down of America that's really highly problematic.
Gary Ackerman -
I'm sure I wouldn't have been asked to judge the Man Booker if it weren't for 'Downton.'
Dan Stevens
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I always say, you gotta play a dive bar like you play an arena, and you play an arena like you play a dive bar.
Lady Gaga -
Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation.
Ed Rendell -
I actually consider myself as totally privileged to be able to serve science and medicine in a global fashion, because science and medicine know no boundaries.
Magdi Yacoub -
Kennedy was like a rock star. Carter was the earnest outsider at the height of Washington cynicism. Clinton was a bad boy who proposed his 'third way' of Democratic politics, and Obama brought hope and change to a country that so desperately needed it.
Fabrizio Moreira -
Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.
Abraham Lincoln -
'Westworld' is bizarre. I don't know what to think of 'Westworld.'
Larry Wilmore
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He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
Samuel Johnson -
Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
Duffy Daugherty -
Art makes you see people as individual, unique human beings. Art, in that way, allows us to see each other in particulate, as opposed to in aggregate.
Dee Rees -
If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'
A. R. Ammons -
Without question, the single most important attribute of a successful entrepreneur is integrity. And that's not some philosophical or theoretical malarkey; it's hard-nosed fact.
David S. Rose -
The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever.
George Leigh Mallory