Edmund Hillary Quotes
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I have ideas that I think might be amusing, and I try them, and if they look right, I carry them out, and if they don't, I throw them out and try something else. I don't agonize about it.
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If I wasn't an actress, I'd never wear make up. I liked being ready in half an hour and arrive on the sets. Even for a no-makeup look, if one has a dark under-eye on a particular day, a little makeup is used. I had no scope for that as well.
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It's nice to see more of those meaty female characters emerging because so often in the industry, it's always about the males.
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Once you take a role, you have to do it properly and do it justice.
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I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies.
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I was born in 1950, so there were tons of Westerns on TV by the time I was 6, 7, 8 years old. In terms of television, 'Maverick' and 'Have Gun - Will Travel.' But filmically, classics like 'High Noon' and 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance' - that's one of my favorite films.
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Fat jokes to me are always, always hilarious, as long as they're done towards yourself.
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There has to be a willingness to constantly accept critical feedback and rapidly iterate to make things better.
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Insider trading by hedge funds has a long and distinguished history, dating to the days when people didn't know that there was such a thing as a hedge fund.
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I wouldn't like my fans going through my rubbish.
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I learned about poise and dignity, and I learned about what it means to be an African-American in television and what that requires in terms of what kind of position you take for yourself and how you define your own reality in a world that is still finding its footing, to say the least.
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'Reinventing the Bazaar,' by John McMillan, is a great and fun introduction to the wild variety and importance of markets throughout history and around the world. I finally understood how a Middle Eastern souk actually works economically and how to compare that to modern-day telecom-spectrum auctions. I love that book.
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I'm never in the mood to eat or drink when I get to a show. I'm just too nerved out.
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So little time and so little to do.
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I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it.
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Alex Poots has always made a bridge between highly experimental and the mainstream.
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It is a known fact that almost all revolutions have been the work, not of the common people, but of the aristocracy, and especially of the decayed part of the aristocracy.
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A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.
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Our mobile phones have become the greatest spy on the planet.
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The world is weary of the past, Oh, might it die or rest at last!
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Intuition enlightens and so links up with pure thought. They together become an intelligence which is not simply of the brain, which does not calculate, but feels and thinks.
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I almost never make stuff out of cookbooks because they're either too complicated or there's an ingredient in there that I can't find.
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There is strength in numbers, but organizing those numbers is one of the great challenges.
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Some day I’m going to climb Everest.
