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.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
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• When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
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• I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.

  

  Imelda May
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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.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
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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.

  

  Larry King
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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.

  

  Octavia Spencer
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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.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
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• It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.

  

  Mackenzie Rosman
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  • Focus

• A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.

  

  Camille Paglia
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  • History
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• Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Me
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• Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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• There's no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily.

  

  J. Carter Brown
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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.

  

  Wendy Davis
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• I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.

  

  Oscar Isaac
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• Where you don't have people who have strong intellectual capacity, you get demagoguery.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
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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.

  

  Rachel Hunter
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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.

  

  Pat Barker
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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.

  

  E. M. Forster
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• I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans. No other animal, by our definition, can be considered intelligent. So intelligence can't be all that important for survival, because there are so many animals that don't have what we call intelligence, and they're surviving just fine.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Life
  • Important
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• A whole series of events pushed me towards meditation, and now it's become such an integral part of the way I manage myself. It's a tool for me; when you're an entrepreneur, and you're pulled in every direction, it is wonderful to have this discipline.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Way
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• If I was to say I had a life, that would be a lie.

  

  Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
  • Life

• Press junkets are incredibly annoying. You sit in a chair for three to six hours and have different journalists shuttle in for three minutes at a time, asking cheesy movie questions to get a quick sound bite - and that's their only objective. You can't really move or eat. You're just stuck there. It's pressure, constant pressure.

  

  Annabella Sciorra
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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.

  

  Ranulph Fiennes
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