Chris Bonington Quotes
If you're going climbing with young people, you get very, very used to seeing your climbing partner as a tiny little dot.
Chris Bonington
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So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.
Patrick Warburton
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Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
Abu Bakar Bashir
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The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals? It's very stuck, whereas with electronic music, new sounds are being created.
Flume
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If you want India to lower tariffs and facilitate more free trade, then I think Indian producers also have a right to enter the European market.
Vijay Mallya
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
Vanessa Hudgens
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I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
Sadie Frost
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Hairdressing in general hasn't been given the kudos it deserves. It's not recognised by enough people as a worthy craft.
Vidal Sassoon
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I was in bands, but they were punk bands, and you plug in the guitars, you turn them up really loud, you've got four or five other people on stage with you, you've got some protection from when they throw lighters. You can always hide behind the lead singer or the bass player.
Oscar Isaac
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A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.
Walter de La Mare
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I remember how to be a person by being around them.
Natalie Portman
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I've been an actress for years, and I've worked with one female director. Statistically it's less than 7% or 12% - I mean, it's low, not representative. So, hopefully, more women will be given opportunities to direct, or create opportunities to direct themselves.
Talulah Riley
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We're playing the same songs, the same way, that we have for years.
Daisy Berkowitz
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I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering.
Yusef Komunyakaa
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I love watching a good, freaky horror movie. I love it. It's one of my favorite things to do, to go and see at the cinema. Just to tune out and be freaked out.
Yvonne Strahovski
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Teenagers want to be able to fight for what's right - but finding out what's right is now 90 percent of the battle.
Maggie Stiefvater
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So don't think in reality I am a singer, I think I am a human being that has sung always all her life, and has learned a little to sing, and has found herself in the middle of a career.
Victoria de los Angeles
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As long as humans have existed, we have always desired to live longer. Every society, every religion, every culture. Of course, they all failed at dramatic life extension.
S. Jay Olshansky
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I would have 55 dogs if I could. I'm hoping one day to open my own shelter.
Kaley Cuoco
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From its very inception, Lenny Letter set out to create a supportive, positive, inclusive space on the Internet that does not shy away from complexity and nuance.
Jenny Zhang
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There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Pop music should be about young people.
Gary Kemp
Spandau Ballet
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When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does.
Maurice Sendak
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If you're going climbing with young people, you get very, very used to seeing your climbing partner as a tiny little dot.
Chris Bonington
