Edmund Hillary Quotes

I hate being called an 'icon.' I just don't like it. That's all there is to it.

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• You've got to be taught to hate and fear.

  

  Oscar Hammerstein II
  • Fear
  • You
  • Hate

• I don't really like to explain my songs.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Like
  • Songs
  • Explain

• I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Like
  • Place
  • Just

• When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Person
  • Being
  • Laughter

• I really like performing for people.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • People
  • Like
  • Performing

• I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • See
  • Being
  • Far

• Well I love preppy style; I like J. Crew for guys.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Love
  • Style
  • Like

• In the streets, they're very nice. On Twitter, there are people who love to hate me. Sometimes people get mean. I tend to answer like, 'Careful now, know who you're dealing with...' They're like, 'I'm sorry! Don't send the Lord of Light after me!' It's fun to play with that.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • People
  • Hate
  • Know

• My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.

  

  Ted Olson
  • World
  • Wife
  • Taken

• My kids like their eggs with catsup. I like mine with salsa.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Kids
  • Like
  • Eggs

• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Book
  • Like
  • Princess

• Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.

  

  B. B. King
  • Know
  • Like
  • Songs

• The reason I hate publicists is because I think if we got rid of them everything would be on equal footing.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Think
  • Hate
  • Equal

• At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Business
  • Like
  • Point

• I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Like
  • Worry
  • Too Much

• Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Love

• I really like collections of things. I love antique botanical prints with a bunch of different weeds and seeds.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Like
  • Things
  • Really

• If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Mother

• I went to the top of the Cotton Bowl by myself, sat down and cried.

  

  Lesley Visser

• As far as barriers once I joined the government I was very lucky because I had all of my credentials together, I was Doctor Albright... So when somebody wanted the one woman I made sure that they knew I was dependable and qualified.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Together
  • Government
  • Doctors

• There's not many Americans, certainly not many of the teenagers I met when I first went to America, knew anything about blues musicians at all. … They do now, which is very groovy.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • America

• There is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth.

  

  Jean Renoir
  • Truth
  • Realism
  • American films

• I hate being called an 'icon.' I just don't like it. That's all there is to it.

  

  Edmund Hillary
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