Bear Grylls Quotes
To get ready to climb Everest, I did a lot of hill running with a daypack on and a lot of underwater swimming. I would swim a couple of lengths underwater and then a couple above. It gets your body going with limited oxygen.
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I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself.
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In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.
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If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
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The thing about women playing boys is that we're not going to age, and we're not going to go through puberty in the middle of a long-running series.
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Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
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My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us.
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Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
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I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.
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After Halle Berry does her films and Queen Latifah does her films, it's left to all the black, Latino and Asian actresses to fight over a couple of roles. I opted for some TV. There's just not a ton of work in film.
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People may remember something I did on the field for a couple of days, maybe a week.
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I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.
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I learnt tennis, swimming, basketball and several others, but the sport I loved the most was golf.
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Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.
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I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They're all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him.
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When I was 16, I definitely burned a couple of bridges by saying, 'I won't do this!' I was not diplomatic about it. I came to a fitting and was like, 'I don't wear fur; cancel this show!'
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My last two records that I made were both quite pointed in one direction and I think I do my best stuff when it's all over the map, when there's a couple traditional things, a couple pretty rocking things.
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In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.
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I'm the sort of person who needs a big mountain in front of me to climb.
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If I forgot to put something on, and I have to wear a trash bag, I'm just like, 'I'm gonna rock a trash bag today.'
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How you deal with adversity says a lot about the kind of players you've got and the kind of team we've got.
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I used to say, 'Man, I think I'd be a really good dad. I'll be a great provider. I'm funny; I'll go on trips with them - I'll do all sorts of stuff.' But the momming? I'm not made for that. I have a really good mom; I know what she put into it.
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I've really been studying lyrics, printing out lyrics to songs I love and reading them like a letter.
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It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.
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To get ready to climb Everest, I did a lot of hill running with a daypack on and a lot of underwater swimming. I would swim a couple of lengths underwater and then a couple above. It gets your body going with limited oxygen.
