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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We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.
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It's easy to forget history or give it a cliff notes. The cliff notes of history. But mainly, so much of what happens in 'Eyes on the Prize' happened in Jackson, Mississippi. Jackson, Mississippi isn't really known for any other touchstone to the movement, other than Medgar Evers being killed. There were sit-ins and riots and atrocities.
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Since my father is a musician as well, he taught me growing up that if you can play jazz, you can learn all instruments and write on them. He wanted me to be a songwriter that can do anything in any genre. I'm all about doing every genre.
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Getting to the top is optional, getting back down is mandatory. A lot of people forget about that.
