Edmund Hillary Quotes
Take advantage of the years of pioneering efforts. You might find this boring, as the young want to rush head on, as it were.
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I actually had a really nice guitar as a teenager. I took jazz guitar, so my mom bought me this probably $1,600 guitar. But I got really into garage rock and local bands, and I noticed they played really crappy guitars. So I thought, 'Hey, I should get a crappy guitar, too!'
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Both sides were supposed to release all their prisoners, those were unconditional. There was some prisoner release that took place but it's not been satisfactory.
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
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I've been able to make some wonderful films, but sometimes you make films with great passion - great belief - and these films slightly don't work at the box office, and they become your favorite films.
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They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.
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I am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and conscription; but entirely apart from that issue, I hold that segregation in any part of the body politic is an act of slavery and an act of war.
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I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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I stopped watching horror movies after I watched 'Candyman' when I was – I don't know, fifteen or something. I remember my sister rented it, 'Candyman,' and it really, really scared me. And so it was only after I found myself in a horror film that I really went back and kind of rediscovered the genre.
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Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
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I can't really dress rock 'n' roll any more because I'm the wrong side of 40, but I want that to be the fashion.
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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.
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I'm not a good guitar player.
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I didn't think then, and I still don't, that I was actually sick.
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What we did ten years ago with the Playstation was a phenomenal success story for the company. That product had a ten year life cycle, which has never been done in this industry.
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Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
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I believe everyone is mad when they are in love, and I don't think that can ever end.
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Everywhere your eye travels in your home, it should land on something that resonates with you.
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All of the libraries and schools that were devastated in the hurricane are suffering for the books that they need to get to children and I am very proud to be apart of this to restore it.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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The things that you know intellectually when you're young become internalized as you get older. You realize all those clichés.
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Scoutmasters deal with the individual boy rather than with the mass.
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Take advantage of the years of pioneering efforts. You might find this boring, as the young want to rush head on, as it were.
