Anatoli Boukreev Quotes
People respected my experience, they hire me, they pay me what I am worth to coach their team.
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Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.
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I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get that, and go for the simple songs, but I prefer something a bit more complicated, which is more meaningful to the creator.
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If a superhero knocks over a building, and there are 5,000 people in the building that we can presume are now dead, does it matter? Because they're not people we know. But if one dog we like gets run over by a car, it's the worst thing we've ever seen. I totally understand where that visceral reaction comes from. I have that same reaction.
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People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.
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I don't have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can from the people I am close to.
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There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
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I think people look at me and don't expect much. Even though, I expect a whole lot.
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I realise how important it is to use the time I have. I respect people who want to do that by watching television. I happen to want to read books. But I know I can't read all the books or watch all the movies in one lifetime.
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Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.
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People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.
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It'll be interesting to raise kids in New York City. I'm from suburbia, so I don't really have any experience with what it's going to be like here.
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People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
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My music has a high irritation factor. I've always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was a joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccentricity to the bland.
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A lot of people want to discredit me.
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
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I like to tell young people to work hard for your goals and live in the moment.
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I like real people - salt-of-the-earth men.
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It's a different point of view on the world and it's different issues and it's important. It's healthy to have both, and more and more women are becoming of aware of that. And when you are aware of how strong of an impact it has on people - it changes things.
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We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest place. What can be more coarse and rude in the mind than the precious metals, or more slavish and dirty than the people that dig and work them? And yet they defile our minds more than our bodies, and make the possessor fouler than the artificer of them. Rich men, in fine, are only the greater slaves.
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There are going to be little victories that we claim, even if it's finishing 15th and putting the car back in hauler without a scratch on it.
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A lot of the songs are very rock-oriented. My voice makes them country, and a lot of people think that is a strange combination... I think it creates something different and unique.
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People respected my experience, they hire me, they pay me what I am worth to coach their team.
