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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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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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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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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I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.
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I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it.
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The history of capitalism has been so totally re-written that many people in the rich world do not perceive the historical double standards involved in recommending free trade and free market to developing countries.
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire; and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gate of heaven.
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This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough.
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Trust me, the only real way to understand 'Chic' is in highfalutin terms. Our chord progressions were based on European modal melodies. I made those early 'Chic' records to impress my jazz friends.
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In San Paulo I went to the movies and by the time I left the theater there was a mob at the exit. I had never been in that kind of situation when we weren't on tour and there was a whole bunch of security. I'm a little dude, and out of nowhere to have 50 or 60 people come running towards me when I'm jut with my friend, it was kind of scary.
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Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature.
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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.
