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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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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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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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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Sympathy relies on a common experience. If you're clumsy, you might have sympathy for others who tend to bump into things. Empathy, on the other hand, is the ability to understand another person's feelings even if you've never experienced them yourself.
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The whole thing of doing a TV series, I find it very daunting not knowing where the story's going.
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One of the lovely things about writing when nobody knows who you are is there's no expectation.
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I knew from the age of five what I wanted to do. The one thing I could do was draw. I couldn't draw that much better than some of the other kids, but I cared more and I wanted it badly.
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Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.
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My favorite actors are people who I don't know anything about, and I can project any character onto them.
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We know that Texas is more than a state. Texas has always been a promise. The promise that where you start has nothing to do with how far you can come.
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I do not care if they do not like me," he said. "Maybe then they will let me alone, and I will not have to stay in China." The thought visibly struck him, and his head came up with sudden enthusiasm. "If I were very offensive, do you suppose they would go away now?" he asked. "Laurence, what would be particularly insulting" Hammond looked like Pandora, the box open and horrors loose upon the world. Laurence was inclined to laugh, but he stifled it out of sympathy.
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Whenever feasible, pick your team on character, not skill. You can teach skills; you can't teach character.
