Bear Grylls Quotes

Americans are cool; if you show just a chink of vulnerability, they respond so much. They'll pat you on the arm and say, 'Hey kid, you're all right.' Brits will respond but they are much more cynical.

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• I didn't have outstanding numbers coming out of college and I'm not 6'6 with 230 lbs.

  

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• I grew up as a country boy.

  

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• Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.

  

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• Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.

  

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• I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much.

  

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• I've got good speed off the edge.

  

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• The point of writing my name to you is that I see who you are, you see who I am... and that's what it's about.

  

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• Because of what I did when I was 10 years old, I'm not living from paycheck to paycheck, and I can do things because I want to do them.

  

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• The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.

  

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• Thematically, in a lot of what I write, there's a sense of displacement, of being rooted in multiple places, and how that can tug at your identities and your wants and your goals.

  

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• The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?

  

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  • Truth
  • History
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• I don't harp on the negative because if you do, then there's no progression. There's no forward movement. You got to always look on the bright side of things, and we are in control. Like, you have control over the choices you make.

  

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• Good music is good music, but it has to be good.

  

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• I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.

  

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• My sister has three kids so I've spent a lot of time around children and I've always really liked them and wanted my own. It's cool because you think all babies are the same but they aren't at all. They all have such different personalities. It's crazy.

  

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• Americans are cool; if you show just a chink of vulnerability, they respond so much. They'll pat you on the arm and say, 'Hey kid, you're all right.' Brits will respond but they are much more cynical.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • You
  • Cool
  • Vulnerability