Walter Bonatti Quotes
Climbing is not a battle with the elements, nor against the law of gravity. It's a battle against oneself.
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When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not written. It's not in the stage direction and it's not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.
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I think the attraction to Israeli women stems from the fact that we're exotic and the fact that there are many talented and beautiful women in Israel. I think that there is also greater awareness of Israel than before in the movie industry.
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I'm going to try to tell stories and let each tale skate its own way into dark or light territory as the needs of the story steer me.
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We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.
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I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
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Most computers today have built in backup software.
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Many people don't have an outlet for their feelings or how they can express life and not everybody in a relationship is the kind of person who wants to. But if you can write, you can find a good way to do it.
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If I wasn’t winning you wouldn’t care
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I think in general, doing The X-Factor with the Steve Aoki song was the most difficult time, but also weirdly the most rewarding as well. I definitely felt like I couldn't do it, and then I definitely felt the support from everyone around me, the friends and family but also the fans and people outside of that.
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Tallulah [Bankhead] was the foremost naughty girl of her era but, in those days, "naughty" meant piquant, whereas values have so changed that now, in the 1970s, it generally means nauseating.
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Right now I would rank Norway as the largest country in the world, I have never seen anything like it
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Thought is fugitive; the mind does not repeat itself; if you do not catch the whisperings of the oracle as they come to you, they are lost forever. You must-and this is absolutely essential-convince yourselves that what is offered you this very moment will never be offered again.
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I hate school at that time. Now, little did I know that actually if I had stayed in school I would've actually really liked college. I wasn't aware enough to know that the junior high I was suffering through would be school at its worst.
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I am sharing my faith with my sons. I pray, meditate and read devotionally. But let me be clear: I am a "person of faith" not because I am a saint, but because I am a sinner.
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Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.
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We believe women have rights in Islam that they've yet to obtain.
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You have to remember this was the '60s, when climbing was dangerous and sex was safe.
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Electro is today's disco - making electronic music not for the sake of selling it but for sharing it and touring around the world D.J.-ing.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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In their zeal for particular kinds of decisions to be made, those with the vision of the anointed seldom consider the nature of the: process: by which decisions are made. Often what they propose amounts to third-party decision making by people who pay no cost for being wrong-surely one of the least promising ways of reaching decisions satisfactory to those who must live with the consequences.
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Climbing is not a battle with the elements, nor against the law of gravity. It's a battle against oneself.
