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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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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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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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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I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.
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My weight fluctuates depending on my mood and my current devotion to my fitness routine.
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My mother accidentally gave me food poisoning. She fed me baby carrots for a snack before Christmas dinner - but they had expired in June! I threw up for the next 24 hours.
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I love that sense of change that you'd get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes.
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We were all monsters and bastards, and we were all beautiful.
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I am a perfectly normal woman. If what we do is storytelling and represent people that we see all day and every day, well, we do not see supermodels all day and every day.
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Give me a strapless gown and a rhinestone-studded guitar and some 55-year-olds in my audience, along with their kids and grandkids. Don't give me 'boogie'!
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The type of cartooning that I think is generally referred to as 'alternative' or 'underground' is usually - the distinction is usually in terms of whether it's made by one person, the entire thing is done by one hand or more of a production line process, which is how the comics that we grew up reading were made.
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Whenever feasible, pick your team on character, not skill. You can teach skills; you can't teach character.
