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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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've spent a lot of time in tiny venues in the way that I got my record deal and got my name out there just performing live. I was literally performing my songs in all kinds of different ways with different guitarists, and I didn't have an album up online or anything. It's been a lot of work; it definitely hasn't been a sudden explosion into fame.
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I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.
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Men can be attracted but not forced to the faith. You may drive people to baptism, (but) you won't move them one step further in religion.
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It is stories - both real and fictional - that can captivate hearts, change minds and, in the most powerful examples, spur action.
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I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
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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.
