Chris Bonington Quotes
I think I shall try to take up climbing professionally. It’s something I love, and I think I am good at, even if it does not lead very far.
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Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.
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You should never say 'D'Brickashaw' and 'bust' in the same sentence. You should never even think that. It should be D'Brickashaw, Pro Bowl, D'Brickashaw, Jets, Super Bowl.
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You need your mom and dad to protect you. It means they love you so much.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.
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I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.
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Kids get a lot of lip service in disaster planning, but they tend to get far fewer resources than they need. The mantra of 'children are our most valuable resource' is almost never matched by actual funding.
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I'm always amused when the 'New York Times' writes editorials trying to be helpful to Republicans and say, 'This is the way Republicans can save themselves.' Look, the 'New York Times' disagrees with us. They're entitled to disagree with us, but it's not like we should take their advice.
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I can be very ordinary looking.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.
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I met Bill Clinton; he's a very nice guy. Yeah, Bill Clinton's cool.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.
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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
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For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.
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I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.
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We pay for content that we like, and we like the content we pay for. It's a lot more satisfying to pay $7.50 for Steven Spielberg's next epic than it is to watch my home movies for free. Even for me.
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To increase the zone of peace is to build the inner core of a stable international zone.
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Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.
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I used to love dogs until I discovered cats.
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I think that most people, and by people I mean journalists, think that I pre-conceive everything and that I spend my afternoons dreaming up self-mythologizing points of interest.
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I think I shall try to take up climbing professionally. It’s something I love, and I think I am good at, even if it does not lead very far.
