Eric Shipton Quotes
After that I was infused with a pleasant sense of abandon. Our rope was not long enough for us to abseil down the red step, and the idea of climbing down it without support from above was not to be contemplated; therefore we just had to reach the summit.
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If you've got Mystique as your girlfriend the fun you could have in bed – I've just imagined X-Men 3 might open with me in bed with Patrick Stewart.
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I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.
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If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.
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All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
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I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.
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A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.
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The pianist Cecil Taylor is extremely melodic; the guitarist Derek Bailey is extremely melodic, and Ornette Coleman.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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I'm evangelical.
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People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. This answer seems to satisfy everyone, but it is not quite correct.
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Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.
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Things heal. Bad stuff happens, but you go on. Life takes care of it.
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I've got no interest in football. My brother's a footballer, too, and I was dragged to the freezing pitch every week as a child. I don't see much glamour in it.
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Even though I wrote 'The 3 Big Questions for a Frantic Family,' my life is as chaotic as most people's.
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If you're smarter than me, you shouldn't be reading my books.
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People go down bad paths and they make bad decisions, but it's always justified in their head.
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Let's dispel this fiction once and for all that Barack Obama doesn't know what he's doing. He knows exactly what he's doing; he's undergoing a systematic effort to change this country and make America more like the rest of the world. If I'm elected we'll embrace what makes America the greatest country in the world.
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Education is neither eastern nor western.
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...four in five of us are, to some extent, members of faith communities. If just a fraction of this huge body of believers were to connect their faith to sustainable development and act accordingly, with the support of their institutions, the gains could be world-changing
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NATO continues to support a political solution which brings an end to the violence in Kosovo.
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After that I was infused with a pleasant sense of abandon. Our rope was not long enough for us to abseil down the red step, and the idea of climbing down it without support from above was not to be contemplated; therefore we just had to reach the summit.
