Ranulph Fiennes Quotes
Whenever feasible, pick your team on character, not skill. You can teach skills; you can't teach character.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
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When you're doing a Broadway show, you have no free time.
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My philosophy is 'learn while you live.' 'LazyTown' is about balance. I'm not there yet.
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I was in the U.S. about 15 years. Especially in New York. And then I came back to Japan.
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To be a statesman, you must first get elected.
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I believe Corot painted a tree better that any of us, but still I find him superior in his figures.
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He expressed the opinion that the world was in a deplorable state. I said, 'Don't talk rot, old Tom Travers.' 'I am not accustomed to talk rot,' he said. 'Then, for a beginner,' I said, 'you do it dashed well.' And I think you will admit, boys and ladies and gentlemen, that that was telling him.'
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What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time. His perception is not limited to what is biologically or socially useful.
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Musik höhere Offenbarung ist als alle Weisheit und Philosophie.1
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Prince was unapologetically different, and he made it okay for his fans to be different and to celebrate their individuality. His social conscience challenged us to look deeper than the skin color of our neighbors.
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I never had any technical training. I never considered that, one day, I'm going to be Beyonce like a lot of girls aspire to be. It just kind of happened.
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Money means better meals at better places.
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Purcell is a composer who had a formative influence on British music - even The Who now cite him as an influence. There's an intense, dirty harmony, but there's a Louis XIV kind of elan and style, too. He had the melancholy DNA of our national folk heritage.
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Shareholder meetings are not usually the occasion for utter candor - or for that matter, arch sarcasm - by chief executives.
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My parents have always had pretty high expectations, but they're very supportive.
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I was more in opposition within my own party, and for a long while, I was part of the opposition. I had - Scoop Jackson was my candidate in '76. I made no bones about that.
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It is always challenging bowling abroad - you don't get much spin, bounce. You do get bounce, but you don't get sideways spin. It is always drifting kind of spin you get.
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What I gotta do? Cats don't even have a clue Can't stand to see Me kick a flow so unbelievably And never gave a hand Askin' 'bout the backup plan Now that it's true Forever tellin' me that you always knew
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I understand the sacrifices American servicemen and women have made to protect freedom and democracy in my country and around the world.
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Poetry, far more than fiction, reveals the soul of humanity.
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Aja gave Loor an up and down once-over. She then said, "Is Loor a man's name or a woman's name?" Ouch. Loor answered, "It is the name of a legendary hero on Zadaa. A woman." Really?" Aja said. "What did she do that was so heroic?" She killed her enemies and ate them.
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Whenever feasible, pick your team on character, not skill. You can teach skills; you can't teach character.
