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.
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So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.
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Why do we make records? Because we want to say something. Why are you in art? Because you want to say something. The second you don't have anything to say, you stop making art - you might start making product. And I'm interested in being an artist.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
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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.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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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.
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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.
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I remember how to be a person by being around them.
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I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people's emotions. It is an enormous source of education and culture.
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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.
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We're playing the same songs, the same way, that we have for years.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat.
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I don't have any hesitation saying I've traveled more miles than any human being who ever lived. I've been doing it for 60 years.
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One has the feeling of enormous safety. You don't have the torque from the propeller. You have no noise; it's almost like little electric motors humming inside, and you feel sort of safe.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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Strength is found in weakness. Control is found in dependency. Power is found in surrender.
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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.
