Erik Weihenmayer Quotes
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
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I'm going to go to work out, and I'm going to enjoy it, and I'm going to eat really healthy. But I'm going to go to Vegas, and I'm going to stop at In-N-Out Burger, and then I'll be back on track.
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I don't mind dating younger men now.
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Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.
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When I was 14, I had no pressure. I was a kid, and I didn't understand all the attention.
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When I get drafty cold air in my ears, I would get an earache and get sick. I had to make sure I hustled and stayed well for my shows that I played.
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Second records aren't usually very good. Even Bob Dylan's was a bit disappointing.
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Being positive may be a character defect of mine.
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My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.
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The man who raised me is black. Culturally, he made me who I am. He was a theatre director, so he also guided me artistically.
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And let's all be honest here; more of us believe in the American hero Sheriff Joe Arpaio's thorough investigation into your phony birth certificate and phony history than the phony media's smoke and mirrors.
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Wishing, of all employments, is the worst.
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Acapulco, Mexico: '...queer, dirty little dago town....The people are too revolting for words, super dagoes & some of them are quite black as a result of Spaniards inter-breeding with the Indians; & of course they only speak Spanish' (9 September 1920)
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I have faith in the universe, for it is rational. Law underlies each happening. And I have faith in my purpose here on earth. I have faith in my intuition, the language of my conscience, but I have no faith in speculation about Heaven and Hell. I'm concerned with this time-here and now.
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Do you. Wear what you want to wear. Be an individual. Be unique and live your best life.
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Certainly there are bubble-like valuations of certain companies, but I don't think anyone out there believes that we're going to go back to doing business the way we used to do business.
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I feel like the thing we can do is celebrate people doing great work and create more cultural momentum and awareness that this is an important thing in the world. So when the next economic crisis hits and people are talking about where to cut from the budget, science isn't the thing.
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I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.
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The law against witches does not prove there be any; but it punishes the malice of those people that use such means to take away men's lives.
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Other extremely alluring traits in people are simplicity and naturalness. Simplicity and naturalness are never painfully obvious qualities, and yet which I come across them in a person, I get this sense of a firm foundation and of a direct access to truth.
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I can travel with music. I close my eyes, and I can travel all over the world with music. And one after another, stories come to me, and I just record them.
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People get trapped into thinking about just one way of doing things.
