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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But there is something to the fact that we don't see games on the West Coast, or we don't see games on the East Coast, and stuff like that. It's so unfair, because there is a bias that takes place.
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I'd say we Apple Inc. are the most creative of the technology companies and definitely the most artist-friendly. Almost everyone in the music business uses a Mac and everyone has an iPod.
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I want to expand the compassionate conservative agenda. I believe life begins in the womb, and we should protect it. But it extends to a child in Darfur or someone living in poverty.
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When you are on tour in the UK it takes a few hours to get anywhere. A lot of the time you can have a beer, close your eyes for two minutes, and then you are there. In the U.S. it is much more like a road trip as all the cities are so spread apart.
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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.
