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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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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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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A car is a killing machine. It's like waving a loaded gun. People don't realise how dangerous they are.
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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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Koreans stuck to their traditional way of life without knowing what was going on outside the country. We were like frogs in a well.
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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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Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the steps.
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When God writes our names in the 'Lamb's Book of Life' He doesn't do it with an eraser handy. He does it for eternity.
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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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Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.
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The United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world's government.
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The appeal of the Golden Age heroes for me is their simplicity, even their naivety - they represent the fundamental building blocks of the whole superhero genre, whether it's a 'super' man able to lift cars, or a vigilante who terrorises criminals at night like Batman.
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Kindness will always attract kindness.
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I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills.
