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 have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.
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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 thing is, I don't get in nobody's business or nothing like that or try to bash anybody for what they do. I've got cousins who are gay. To me, there's just no difference. We always chill and have family functions the way we always have. It's not a problem.
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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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I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace.
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I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand.
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I loved the challenge of being able to take a character who could be thrown away as 'crazy' and making her identifiable to the audience - also, to give her a vulnerability that people would cheer for.
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After a long day, my favorite way to unwind is by going running. Not exactly the most relaxing activity, granted, but I always imagine I'm sweating out all the things weighing on my mind.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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Do you want to know what you are? You are a creator. At every moment you are creating. The real question is, what are you creating?
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Whenever feasible, pick your team on character, not skill. You can teach skills; you can't teach character.
