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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I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.
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The exercise of reason is not available only to specialists; it is accessible to everyone.
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There was romance and reality truth and dare. People being people, no hero's, just you and me like it always is. We learned how we are together and how we come apart. Life happens.
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Killing a bunch of people in Sudan and Yemen and Pakistan, it's like, "Who cares - we don't know them." But the current discussion is framed as "When can the President kill an American citizen?" Now in my mind, killing a non-American citizen without due process is just as criminal as killing an American citizen without due process - but whatever gets us to the table to discuss this thing, we're going to take it.
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I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills.
