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.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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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.
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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
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People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.
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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.
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How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
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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.
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When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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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.
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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.
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I'm sure I wouldn't have been asked to judge the Man Booker if it weren't for 'Downton.'
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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.
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Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation.
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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.
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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.
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Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.
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'Westworld' is bizarre. I don't know what to think of 'Westworld.'
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I've been nominated for Emmys and Golden Globes, but I've never won one and I probably never will.
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I think all you can really do is use the tour to kinda fill up with experiences and thoughts, and then, when you get back to the studio, or in some type of creative environment, that's when you release everything that you've encountered on tour.
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Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
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I don't have a sidekick - no Ed McMahon. So when I go out there, I'm lonely. It's scary.
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The most pressing question of our time is this: Is European society to be taken over by a radical invasion of Muslim immigrants?
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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.
