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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Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.
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The most important thing I have learned from the people I've worked with is that you have to love what you do. That passion will drive you anywhere you want to go.
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There is one all-important law of human conduct. If we obey that law, we shall almost never get into trouble. In fact, that law, if obeyed, will bring us countless friends and constant happiness. But the very instant we break the law, we shall get into endless trouble. The law is this: Always make the other person feel important.
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I hope to be acting until I am 90.
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Rawlings was a burglar and a thief, but like much of the London underworld he would not have anyone 'trash' his country. It is a fact that convicted traitors in prison, along with child molesters, have to be kept in seclusion because professional 'faces,' if left alone with such a man, are likely to rearrange his component parts.
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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.
