Edward Whymper Quotes
The thing to be wished for, is not that the mountains should become easier, but that men should become wiser and stronger.
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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Democrats should insist that a pluralistic democracy such as ours rely on bipartisanship in formulating a foreign policy based on moderation and the nuances of the human condition.
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I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.
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I love the smell of Burger King when I ride past, but sometimes I have to avoid it.
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Hemingway was a jerk.
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I'm neither Democrat nor Republican.
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Voice acting is very different from live-action. You only have one tool to convey emotion. You can't sell a line with a look. It's all about your vocal instrument.
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What we should notice is that studies show that fathers' presence in their children's lives has a marked effect on how well their kids do later in life, so why aren't we asking how we can better liberate men from the workplace to be home with their kids more often?
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ISIS is on the offense, with the ability to attack at will, anyplace, anytime.
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On set is where I feel comfortable. The red carpet stuff, talking about the film, explaining your own life, it doesn't come naturally. It's all necessary stuff I suppose but it's not my strength.
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I'm very into dark colors. I try to rock the dark against the ghost white skin as much as humanly possible.
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I got to know Elton John's older music by learning to like his newer stuff. 'The Lion King?' That's what I like.
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I'm looking for a world where love will no longer be extraordinary.
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Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.
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In the film world, and I know this from just talking to other people, that I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor, and the fact is I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
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Are zombies possible? They're not just possible, they're actual. We're all zombies.* Nobody is conscious - not in the systematically mysterious way that supports such doctrines as epiphenomenalism.*It would be an act of desperate intellectual dishonesty to quote this assertion out of context!
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I thought inside 'I must really be crazy, now - because craziness is where everybody agrees about something - except you!' And yet I felt saner than I had ever felt, so I knew this was a new kind of craziness or perhaps a new kind of saneness.
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History is much more the product of chaos than of conspiracy.
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I can tell you for me it goes on forever. There are some things you can't ever find out. You can't find out in one life either.
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I don't do fight camps anymore because I live in camp.
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Aside from my family, I have two great loves in my life: acting and the fight for social justice.
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Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot.
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The thing to be wished for, is not that the mountains should become easier, but that men should become wiser and stronger.
