Ranulph Fiennes Quotes
It is a truism to say that the dog is largely what his master makes of him: he can be savage and dangerous, untrustworthy, cringing and fearful; or he can be faithful and loyal, courageous and the best of companions and allies.
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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
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I started working out, eating a good diet, and just did everything I could that I thought would benefit me. I also started studying a lot harder in school. It matured me a remarkable amount and made me completely focused.
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I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess – perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through about 100 revisions. If anything, that's an understatement. If there's another author out there who does this sort of revision, I would really like to meet him. Maybe we could form some sort of support group.
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The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
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It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.
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Our men and women in our armed forces are the real heroes in this conflict.
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There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography.
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'Orange Is the New Black' was my home show. I knew the set; I knew everyone there.
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Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.
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In my youth, I spent my time investigating insects.
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My aim as a frontman is always to try and shrink the venue, if you can, to turn that football stadium into the world's smallest club. At least you have to try.
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My type, which I didn't realize until somebody pointed out to me, apparently is brunettes with darker skin tones, but that is about it as far as aesthetically.
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Rejection is a universally embarrassing topic and 'Electra Heart' is my response to that. It is a frank album.
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People have always searched for answers. That's why we have religion; people have always been seeking some relief from their own mortality.
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When people are committed to things, and the world view they have is no longer in alignment with our world view, then it becomes funny.
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I write all the time because I'm lonely. When you're acting, you're working every day all day. But then you have long amounts of time off.
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'Saw,' in many ways, was like my student film. The first crappy student film you don't really want people to see.
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I'm not big on game shows.
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I believe very deeply in my soul that God paired me and my father purposely and that he knew that my father would give me the strength to be a person with disability that was proud, always held her head high, and was never, ever bitter.
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Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one.
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Meetings are usually terrible, but they shouldn't be.
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In Re-framing, you interpret the event in a positive way. You change your language . Instead if defining it as a problem you re-frame it as a situation . A problem is something that is upsetting and stressful. A situation is something that you simply deal with .
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That’s because of race – mixing. For example, a Russian marries an Armenian. They have a kid, a cute girl, but she has her dad’s nose. She goes and files it down a little, and it’s all good. Ethnicities are mixing now, so there’s degeneration, and it didn’t used to be like that. Remember how many beautiful women there were in the 1950s and 1960s, without any surgery? And now, thanks to degeneration, we have this. I love the Nordic image myself. I have white skin; I am a Nordic type – perhaps a little Eastern Baltic, but closer to Nordic.
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It is a truism to say that the dog is largely what his master makes of him: he can be savage and dangerous, untrustworthy, cringing and fearful; or he can be faithful and loyal, courageous and the best of companions and allies.
