Ranulph Fiennes Quotes
People who go to the polar regions are statistically less likely to die than salesmen who drive on motorways in England.
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During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
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I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.
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I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I'll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage.
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They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
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Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.
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Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.
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There's no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily.
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The truth is that at age 19, I was a teenage mother living alone with my daughter in a trailer and struggling to keep us afloat on my way to a divorce. And I knew then that I was going to have to work my way up and out of that life if I was going to give my daughter a better life and a better future, and that's what I've done.
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I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.
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The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.
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Where you don't have people who have strong intellectual capacity, you get demagoguery.
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But things move in circles: one minute it's the models who are famous, then it's the actresses, then it's the designers.
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'Undertones of War' by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but it is a great book.
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Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.
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I feel squeezed like a lemon - interviewers and people keep turning up unannounced at my office!
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After the battle in Pharsalia, when Pompey was fled, one Nonius said they had seven eagles left still, and advised to try what they would do. 'Your advice,' said Cicero, 'were good if we were to fight jackdaws.'
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There are pockets of great food in Spain, but there are also pockets of very mediocre food in Spain, and the same in Morocco and the same in Croatia and the same in Germany and the same in Austria.
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I like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I'm an old-fashioned gal.
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People who go to the polar regions are statistically less likely to die than salesmen who drive on motorways in England.
