Edmund Hillary Quotes

I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

Edmund Hillary

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• I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.

  

  Imelda May
  • Up
  • Music
  • Beautiful

• I was always more interested in the ultimate live performance rather than the recording for its own sake. And, for the audience too, that thrill of - just being there.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Live
  • Audience
  • Performance

• Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Look

• I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Enough
  • Dreams
  • Use

• I do constantly get to change the way I look, which is sort of an old-school idea of acting.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • School
  • Change
  • Acting

• Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I'm not really a short story writer, nor do I tend to gravitate to them as a reader.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Writing
  • Story
  • Short

• It's always an honor to represent your country.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Country
  • Always
  • Honor

• I went to law school with a plan of going back home and practicing law to support my farming, and Dad said, 'There's just not room here for us.' So I took off to practice law and got involved in some politics, and the rest just moved on forward.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • School
  • Home
  • Law

• Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Live

• Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Flying
  • Calm
  • Rattle

• Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.

  

  Nas
  • Music
  • Want
  • Dating

• Words are but the signs of ideas.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Words
  • Ideas
  • Communication

• I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Star

• A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.

  

  Karel Reisz
  • Desire
  • Audience
  • Conformity

• As you learn who you are, you can better surround yourself with friends who make you a better person, and that sometimes only happens when you disassemble old relationships.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Friends
  • Surround Yourself

• The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Present
  • Influence
  • More

• When 'Ice Ice Baby' was selling a million records a day, I bought several properties: a home next to Michael J. Fox in L.A., a palace in Miami and a mountain cabin in Utah. Then, a few years later, I took a break from touring, saw that my properties had cobwebs, so I sold them, and - to my surprise - I made a huge profit!

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Home
  • Day
  • Baby

• It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Important
  • Partner
  • Tea

• And waste their music on the savage race.

  

  Edward Young
  • Music
  • Savage

• Actors always feel more comfortable when there's an actor directing, in terms of vocabulary and breaking down a scene.

  

  Kurt Sutter

• Wait, I'm deciding to be my own individual self. And it looks nothing like what anyone else is doing.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Individual
  • Own
  • Wait

• Most of us start out with a positive attitude and a plan to do our best.

  

  Marilu Henner
  • Positive
  • Attitude

• All I want to say to people, man, is, "Yo, you see me walking down the street and I got a little bop in my walk, don't think because I've got a bop in my walk I'm trying to be all that. The bop in my walk is because I'm just like you, man. I bop when I walk." Know what I'm saying? I'm proud. If you see me smiling, standing straight up, gold around my neck, it's not because I'm conceited. It's because I'm proud of what I achieved. I made this. I worked hard for this. That's all this is about.

  

  LL Cool J
  • People
  • Up
  • Men

• I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Men
  • True
  • Dream