Erik Weihenmayer Quotes
Maybe people, maybe the world writes things off as impossible a little too quickly, when they really aren't - when they just haven't reached out and figured out how to utilize their resources to the fullest degree or created pioneering systems in their lives.
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Belgian chocolate is my weakness. I like over 72 percent cacao, which shows you how much of a dark chocolate snob I am.
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This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.
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With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.
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May it be long before the people of the United States shall cease to take a deep and pervading interest in the Fourth of July, as the birthday of our national life, or the event which then occurred shall be subordinated to any other of our national history.
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In sailing, I single-hand, and I want to do the Horn. The Horn is the maximum expression of sailing, the way the Iditarod is the maximum expression of running dogs. It's not to write about it; it's to experience the maximum thing.
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I think fan fiction is the way most writers start, and the same goes for music and design.
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The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
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Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
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Every time Paul and Gene use my makeup, they have to pay me a royalty check. I think they changed the makeup so they didn't have to pay me.
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I went to a lot of theatre. My parents were very involved with the performing arts. I went to nightclub shows when I was a little girl. We went to Florida and we would go to the Cocoanut Grove down there. We'd go see Lena Horne, Jimmy Durante, Sophie Tucker and Judy Garland.
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Dartmouth is such a special college with its rich history, dedicated student body, and, as I've been learning more recently, colorful customs.
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Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.
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Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers; only plastic flowers never die.
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It's the playoffs. There's no room for okay.
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People say we were an overnight success. It took us a year to be an overnight success.
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Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.
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Doubt yourself all you want, but you have to make choices in life and live with them.
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That body is still new to her, she's still trying it out, thinking it through, a bit like a kid walking the streets with a loaded gun and deciding whether he's packing it to protect himself or to begin a life of crime.
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It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.
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The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.
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Even people who believe they deserve to be happy and have nice things often don't feel worthy once they have them.
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Maybe people, maybe the world writes things off as impossible a little too quickly, when they really aren't - when they just haven't reached out and figured out how to utilize their resources to the fullest degree or created pioneering systems in their lives.
