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.
Edward Whymper
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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.
Imelda May
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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.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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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.
Naomi Watts
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I love the smell of Burger King when I ride past, but sometimes I have to avoid it.
LaMarr Woodley
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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
Walter Kirn
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Hemingway was a jerk.
Harold Robbins
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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.
Aaron Schock
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I'm looking for a world where love will no longer be extraordinary.
Patch Adams
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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.
Edna Ferber
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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.
Campbell Scott
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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!
Daniel Dennett
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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.
Ram Dass
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It is better to live in peace than in bitterness and strife.
Confucius
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Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that, if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?
Francis Bacon
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The security of our nation depends on the men and women who are willing to sacrifice their safety, and possibly their lives, to protect the freedoms the rest of us enjoy.
Ben Nelson
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Having a boy play a girl (and when I say 'play a girl' I don't mean that he is represented as a girl, because he is represented as a young man) is complicated. He knows he's looking at photographs of a girl and copying those poses. So the audience sees him as a man, but he can only see himself as a woman, because that's the model he's looking at. It was a really interesting exchange.
Collier Schorr
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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.
Edward Whymper
