Edmund Hillary Quotes
Reaching the summit of a mountain gives great satisfaction, but nothing for me has been more rewarding in life than the result of our climb on Everest, when we have devoted ourselves to the welfare of our Sherpa friends.
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Life in California is beautiful.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
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Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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We have seen the damage already caused to the music industry and we have to continue to make the public and government bodies globally aware of the damage that will happen if DVD piracy is not brought under control.
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This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.
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It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.
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Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.
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When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard.
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I know that I am very popular in Holland, in fact I have visited Amsterdam several times to publicize my books. I have a great publisher in Holland and they have published all of my books in Dutch.
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The only way anyone knows which girl I'm with is if a one-night stand goes on 'Howard Stern.'
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They say every writer really just writes about one thing over and over. I guess my one thing is how the past impacts the present.
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We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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That's what everybody remembers. They don't remember how many medals I won in my career. They remember the 10s.
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When I was about five, I gave my heart to Jesus Christ, and since then it's just been a stronghold in my life. Really, through the shark attack and all the hard times that my family and I went through, it gave us unity and perseverance to push through all this crazy stuff that we never knew was going to happen.
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Before I did comedy, I'd freestyle with all of my friends. In high school and into college, I recorded songs with my friends, not to perform but just to play for them. So I've had interest in music for a while. Early on, I'd host a lot of music open nights or hip-hop nights, so a lot of my early experience performing was around music.
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But complacency or self-congratulation can imperil our security as much as the weapons of tyranny. A moment of pause is not a promise of peace.
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I am alive again, now that I can no longer stand to live.
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Sometimes, when you have someone behind the counter who's supposed to assist you and help you out, just being completely bored and uninterested - sometimes it's a little bit frustrating, you know?
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Reaching the summit of a mountain gives great satisfaction, but nothing for me has been more rewarding in life than the result of our climb on Everest, when we have devoted ourselves to the welfare of our Sherpa friends.
