Edmund Hillary Quotes
I don't know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I'm a great gift to the world. I've been very fortunate.
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In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
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You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west and they'll work just as well - any single one of them - because they're stories about people, they're stories about things.
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The crown of literature is poetry.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
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I didn't get into rap to be no lyrical genius. I got into rap to feed my family and help the people in need around me, that's it. A lot of people say, 'Man, Waka Flocka ain't go no lyrics,' so I was like, 'Yeah, you right!'
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I went from a player who was never fit to a person who actually worked hard to get myself in shape.
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.
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My dad's family were pretty working class, actually.
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'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
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I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.
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I love to act, but business is more interesting because it's more competitive and involves more people. There's more 'now' mentality and energy. Intellectually, it's a lot more interesting.
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I've always had a complicated relationship with sleep. Even as a little kid, I never wanted to go to bed - it always seemed unfair in some way.
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I have a lot of vanity.
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I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.
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I love acting, but I'm not too crazy about money or fame. They don't drive me.
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A video taped stage performance is just - you know, it's never gonna be the same as it is if you're sitting there live in the theatre.
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I don't read about myself, and I don't read any magazine that has anything to do with movies or show business.
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Sometimes you like the personal adventure implicit in the making of a film, and sometimes you like your part in a film, and sometimes you like the final result.
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Without social media, I wouldn't have young girls messaging me from Australia or Mexico City or the Midlands, but I do wonder if I'd be on it if it wasn't part of my job.
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A leader who is self-aware enough to know that he or she is not adept at everything is one who has taken the first step toward being a great leader.
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the pyramids were built for pharaohs on the happy theory that they could take their stuff with them. Versailles was built for kings on the theory that they should live surrounded by the finest stuff. The Mall of America is built on the premise that we should all be able to afford this stuff. It may be a shallow culture, but it's by-God democratic. Sneer if you dare; this is something new in world history.
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I don't know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I'm a great gift to the world. I've been very fortunate.
