Edmund Hillary Quotes
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I cannot turn down this incredible honor twice.
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But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does.
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I've been through plenty in my life where I've really had to focus on the day ahead... because, as I know, the future is, you know, whatever the future is... Once you've stared mortality that hard in the face, you really seize the day.
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Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.
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All my life, I've been working with male directors, which I've really enjoyed. And I'm lucky in that I've worked with men who have a lot of respect for women. But working with a woman is a different experience. It feels like the communication is different.
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I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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I never thought I'd spend all my life with Gary. I suppose I was quite cynical about marriage. But with Jude, I knew right from the beginning: there was an electricity I'd never felt before. It was so easy, we talked for hours. It was a relief, really.
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Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.
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'Big Bang' is unbelievable; I'm blessed, but it's not the only thing in my life.
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I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my life.
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Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
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Everyone's like, 'Oh, you must live in L.A., the glamorous life,' and I really don't. I'm in a small house, in Pittsburgh, in the snow.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn't us. Don't be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.
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For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
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We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like.
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I'm pretty rigorous about the drafts I turn in. I don't turn in something that's so ungodly they go, 'What the hell is this?'
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Tom Kitt aside - he's in his own category with me, of course - Stephen Sondheim is one of my all-time favorite composers.
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There is a percentage of people who want to be a little bit outside their comfort zone and I am one of them, someone who lives on the edge.
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That's what it is-it's jazz. It's just jazz. That's what the whole thing is about to me. It's about what's happening right now in this context. This conversation is jazz to a certain extent. It's improvisation. What appeals to me about music is the improvization. That's what I don't like about the media-they're not living it.
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Being the DA was, without a doubt, the best job in the world. I loved knowing that people would get their justice.
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Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.
