Edmund Hillary Quotes
My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School.
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We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences.
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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Writing is challenging work because it's so easy to get consumed with how it's going, what's going to happen to it, who's going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.
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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
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A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.
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Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.
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Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
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I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.
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How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.
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George W. Bush, though a president's son, is cast as Reagan's heir even more than his father's.
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The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.
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The music I was making for people not to dance to was the one they were dancing to.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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Things aren't always clear at the beginning of a relationship. Be up-front. Don't play on her confusion or vulnerability. Women want and appreciate clarity.
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Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.
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You do your bit and then you hope for the best and you think, oh I hope there's an audience at the end of the day.
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In a media age where books are no longer the primary medium for information storage and exchange, language must be reclaimed from the hucksters and the pedants and imaginatively reinforced. To save literature, educators must take command of the pre-rational world of images. The only antidote to the magic of images is the magic of words.
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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.
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I'm the old-school, letter-writing romantic. I know it's out of style, and not a lot of women go for that these days, but that's what I go for.
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My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School.
