Edmund Hillary Quotes
Becoming a 'Sir' is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it.
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There's something about a divorce in that even if your parents still love you, the fact that they can't live with each other makes you feel there's something wrong with you.
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Koran says whoever believes in God in the last day shall be saved. It is a religion whose very name, Islam, comes from the word Shalom, which means peace. It's about establishing peace. We greet each other with peace be upon you, which the Jews do in greeting each other.
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As you get older, and this is a young man's game, and people say, 'Well, there's no way I can keep up running the way I'm running; there's no way my arm is going to stay as strong as it is.' It's the challenge of trying to stay in my tip-top shape year in and year out so I can keep playing the way I want to play.
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Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor. Ask anybody, particularly the critics.
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For every athlete, it is very important to be able to engage in their favorite thing, give all the best in training, performing in competitions, defending the honor of the motherland.
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One of the things, one of the things that really got to me was the thing in Houston where you had the government, the mayor actually, trying to get the sermons of ministers. When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on marriage, that's when it's time to resist.
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My mum made me feel if I wanted to become prime minister, I could do it.
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The point of writing my name to you is that I see who you are, you see who I am... and that's what it's about.
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The situation is quite serious - groundwater is important source for water use, including drinking water, and if it gets contaminated, it's very costly and difficult to clean.
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I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.
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People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable.
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There is no reliable way to calculate from the number of recorded compliance issues how many Americans have had their communications improperly collected, stored or distributed by the NSA.
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If you have more money than your lifestyle, then you can either do something stupid or smart. That's not much of a choice. That's like saying, 'You are on the roof. you can either take the elevator, or you can jump.' That's not a choice.
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I was never the mascot of the Georgia football team.
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Corruption is not the sole test of your worthiness to form the government.
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Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
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Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny.
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Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.
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I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.
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Every stylish man should have a copy of 'The Fountainhead' by Ayn Rand on his bookshelf.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
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You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.
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Becoming a 'Sir' is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it.
