Ed Viesturs Quotes
Getting to the top is optional, getting back down is mandatory. A lot of people forget about that.
Quotes to Explore
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Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
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I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.
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In your darkest moments of despair, a friend's hand on yours will get you through the worst.
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The eyes get lost in 3-D. With 3-D, your eyes are looking for the plane of focus, right? And the problem is, when you do quick cuts, your eyes can't find it.
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I haven't a clue what's going to happen next, and I can't wait to find out.
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My fans know the name Larry Holmes and that he always gave it his all.
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My grandmother was energetic and fearless - a talented poet and songwriter. She was also interested in chemistry and history and medicine, taking care of the people in her hacienda in Mexico, delivering babies. She could have become anything, but this was the 1930s, and she was forced into an arranged marriage.
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Then as everything, like I say, things started to come together, when things started to go our way, that's when you results started to come. I was no different driver. I was certainly learning every time I went in the car.
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Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.
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We must be loyal to the forum of our government.
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I go to bed when the kids go to bed because I get up when they get up at 5.
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As it defines itself, every society defines other societies. That definition almost always takes the form of a condemnation: the 'other' is the barbarian.
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For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian.
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I'm a native New Yorker, so I'm edgier; I kind of tell it like it is.
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I don't get claustrophobic.
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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
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I think when I was quite younger, I was always quite a tomboy.
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The funny thing about 'The Naked Brothers Band' movie was that we tricked the audience into thinking that we were actually rock stars.
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Our constitutional democracy demands our participation, all the time.
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A library is where you meet fascinating characters you never forget.
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Until that moment I had stopped thinking about my family. Maybe it was due to the bread we ate each evening that supposedly contained not only sawdust but a powder called bromide that made us forget memories of home, a sedative of some kind. Whatever it was or was not, I could not feel sorry for myself, for Miriam, for anyone. I could not think of myself as a victim, or I knew I would perish. It was simple. For me, there was no room for any thought except survival.
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This notion of changing technology interests me. I work on a computer now, and it's not been easy to adjust. I still prefer to have my hands on film when I'm editing.
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Getting to the top is optional, getting back down is mandatory. A lot of people forget about that.
