Chris Bonington Quotes
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'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.
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Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.
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The whole point of having money, and working and making money, is to enjoy and spend it.
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I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.
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I happen to be quite fond of staying out late and sleeping the day away.
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We are well aware of the task ahead of us in what will be a very difficult match but which we all dream of playing.
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But what is more, if we have succeeded in adding to the basic understanding of our universe and ourselves, we will have made a contribution to the totality of human culture.
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Don't worry about it. Babe Ruth struck out on occasion, too.
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I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold, but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time. It wasn't until 1980 - I think I was 12 years old - that I thought, 'Wow that's what I want to do. I want to be on the Olympic team.'
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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The Indian youth needs to be empowered, and it can be done through good education and vocational training.
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'Blue Plate Special' is the autobiography of my first half-century of life, with food as the subject.
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I think they have not learned over the years that the more you talk, the more I will want to beat you.
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I think, to me, the sheer joy of fancy dress is that it allows you to take a break from our very carefully considered and constructed identities.
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I have been doing marriage counseling for about 15 years and I realized that what makes one person feel loved, doesn't make another person feel loved.
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I always thought that record would stand until it was broken.
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Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
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Islam has been badly used by a certain ideology.
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I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or a bad-guy wins a case is less important than what the law is that the case results in.
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No other country in the world gives protection like that, but it is not absolute protection. People sometimes meet that high burden and win libel suits, and in those cases I think they ought to win.
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We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We're inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, 'Gimme, gimme, gimme,' you will always be in short supply.
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Before I got married, I dated the gamut.
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We've all got strange things about us and Lynch picks those things up.
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I don’t think I have really got much of a vocation for peacetime soldiering
