Ranulph Fiennes Quotes
I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills.
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These things don't just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time.
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Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.
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You have to recognize at some point that even though you have the passion and creative level to be able to do something, you might have to do a lot of prep. Sometimes you just can't do it as quickly as you want to do it.
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A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.
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An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
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Any time that you can give the consumer more of what they want, it's a good thing. I said from Day 1 that the unbundling of the album is a good thing.
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People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
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Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.
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For a gymnast to be successful, she needs to strike a balance of everything within herself. She needs to be graceful, flexible, perform all elements, turns, maintain co-ordination - she has to have all of that. If, for example, she only has co-ordination and nothing else, she will not succeed.
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Great songwriting will never die - it's in the DNA of music - but what's new and exciting is pairing that with new sounds that technology is enabling us to make.
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Está atado a ellos y no comprendes cómo, porque ellos no están atados a ti.
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I stick to what got me here and what I know best. That's the same routine. I'm not going to vary it.
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Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.
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Paul Desmond sounds like a female alcoholic.
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I always tried to work hard and stay focused, and just use one opportunity to contribute to the next.
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It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.
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There is no doubt that Bronstein's shrewd understanding of chess psychology was crucial to his success. Without it, his impetuous style and technical flaws might have relegated him to a minor career.
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To be able to see into a friends' dream is a dream in itself. -Doctor Kōsaku Tokita (Paprika)
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The best reason to diminish social programs is not to put more money in people's pockets but to put more responsibility in people's pockets.
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One must not imitate the sun, one must make oneself into a sun
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The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
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I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills.
