Edmund Hillary Quotes
I was very much aware that we still had to get safely back down the mountain again and that was quite an important factor. I really felt the most excitement when we finally got to the bottom of the mountain again and it was all behind us.
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I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?
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Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
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After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.
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I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.
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Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.
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When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.
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When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
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I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.
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I would definitely go back and do theater; I talk about theater all the time.
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The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.
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When I first moved to New York, I was still returning to Tennessee every few months to perform.
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Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention gender.
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I would only take a role that I know I'm comfortable in and I can do. I've turned down plenty of things because I'd feel it's not me, and I wouldn't want to come on someone's project and flip that.
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I realize that I'm not going to be everybody's cup of tea, and that's okay. I think that's the point of music.
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I'm always looking for perfection. Even after training and my coaches say I did good, I always think I could have done more.
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I was very fortunate when I was little - I played basketball. You really absolutely learn how to be a team player, how to win a game, to accomplish things, not just for yourself.
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The nature of an ensemble means when you're a supporting character and not the lead character, you get little tidbits here and there, but you're usually there to provide bits of comic relief and little bits of action or something.
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Labour's task for government is to build consent for an outward-looking Britain as the best way to advance not just our interests, but also our values at a time of challenge, both at home and abroad.
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None of the characters I played was very close to me as a real person.
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When I won in 2003, never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would win Wimbledon and have my kids seeing me lift the trophy, so this is pretty surreal. And yeah, I was almost shocked in the moment that it all came together so nicely.
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The best thing I could do is build a successful company and continue to innovate and be in the right role I want to be in. If I'm not doing that, I'm inauthentic. That's not a good role model to anyone. That, to me, is the most important thing.
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You don't have to leave the world to be holy and grow closer to the Holy One.
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I was very much aware that we still had to get safely back down the mountain again and that was quite an important factor. I really felt the most excitement when we finally got to the bottom of the mountain again and it was all behind us.
