Bear Grylls Quotes
Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying.
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There's a critic that I love, Manohla Dargis of the 'L.A. Weekly.' I like the underground point of view; it's my old radical sympathies. Maybe I like her because she likes my movies.
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River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
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Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.
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Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.
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People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.
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I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.
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I want to be the Letterman of metal. I want five nights a week, Monday to Friday, 11 to 12, live. I always shoot for the moon.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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I can't even imagine life without music!
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Any psychologist will tell you that healing comes from honest confrontation with our injury or with our past. Whatever that thing is that has hurt us or traumatized us, until we face it head on, we will have issues moving forward in a healthy way.
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
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To read too many books is harmful.
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By definition, startups are not constrained by the limits of established company culture. And so they push boundaries and develop new technologies and ways of doing things.
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Anyone who tells you they don't need to rewrite, they're usually the ones who need it worst.
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I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.
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Characters actors don't usually get noticed until they're about 38 or so.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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Progress in economics is said to take place through a cumulative process in which scholars build on the work of their predecessors. In an age when graduate syllabi contain few references to books and articles written as many as ten years ago, this is too infrequently the case.
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My mom raised me to never have anything control me.
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I'm fascinated by the people I grew up with and the mistakes I made - and God, I have screwed up. I like writing about where it all went off course.
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If it were not for the assurance that I have that the Lord is near to us, guiding, directing, the burden would be almost beyond my strength, but because I know that He is there, and that He can be appealed to, and if we have ears to hear attuned to Him, we will never be left alone.
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Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying.
