Alain Robert Quotes
If you've climbed the first 140 meters it doesn't mean that you've succeeded; you are going to succeed by climbing the last 10 meters.
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Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
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People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.
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The more questions and answers we get, the more useful Quora is.
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Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.
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I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job was, that I don't know if I would be able to concentrate on the character.
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I love collaborating with different people.
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My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
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The Lebanese Civil War, 1975-1990, spanned four World Cups. It would have been a more symmetrical five had the Lebanese begun in 1974, but you know, we're Mediterranean, and timing isn't our forte.
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I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books.
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Global crude oil demand is increasing, particularly in places like China.
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Your present is shaped by your yesterday, but you don't have to advertise it.
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I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.
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My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is something I really know about. Even when I was a kid, it was a profession my father couldn't stay in, because he couldn't make enough money.
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I got good grades in math, but I never really enjoyed it. My favorite part of math was algebra, but geometry was the worst.
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I don't really know how to act that much. I'm quite good at comedy, but it's mostly acting naturally.
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My biggest accomplishment has been making a transition from athlete to author.
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It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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I don't really like the gym. I like to fool my body. I run around the beach and then there's scaffolding so I can just do different pulls-ups there.
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Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.
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I collect... for a long time, I collected Nike Air Max 90s, this specific shoe. And it really is nerdy, because collecting sneakers is not that nerdy, but if you don't wear them, and you keep the box fresh, if you're that fanatical about it, then you leap several categories into super-dork, and that's the way I was.
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I respect all artists, just some more than the others. Because it's something that really needs to be done.
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Frail the white rose and frail areHer hands that gave
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If you've climbed the first 140 meters it doesn't mean that you've succeeded; you are going to succeed by climbing the last 10 meters.
