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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One of the problems with posing a 'bold new plan' is that you can't just extrapolate from previous plans.
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Little by little he came to recognize the difference between the spirits that agitated him, one from the enemy and one from God.
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I also didn't consider myself a huge baby person.
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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 consider creativity to be a more non-rational, subconscious thing. You have a relationship to your creativity - you can feed it with content, with some rational prodding and sleep and things like that, but the mechanisms by which your creativity work are largely unknown.
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Over time, a successful company will acquire much in the way of resources and momentum, and these things often insulate it from reality once it has stopped being successful.
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People more than ever since I can remember are concerned about being out of step and out of line with their political party and won't cross over. There is nobody, man or woman, who wants to be left out, and people are fearful of that. People are fearful of their leadership as well.
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We should expand health savings accounts so people can save in a tax-advantaged way for more routine healthcare needs.
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I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don't have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me.
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I don’t think I have really got much of a vocation for peacetime soldiering
