Anatoli Boukreev Quotes
There are many questions, but I cannot answer because I'm not a businessman, I am a climber.
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And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn't want to do it alone. Then once I was 41, 42, I had to accept that I probably wouldn't have kids unless I decided to adopt later on, but even then it would be with a partner.
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You can't say somebody is a bust if they're making plays and running to the ball.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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I often use hypothetical situations to generate information and imagery for paintings and to create a fictional space where a subject can be put into play.
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Opposition to abortion was one of the ways the Christian right was brought into the Republican Party by conservatives hoping to move the party further right. Now, of course, the tail is wagging the dog.
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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
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Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.
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Sometimes living in a room that's badly designed isn't the worst thing in the world. Trust me - this is a fact! Living in a room that has no design whatsoever is even worse. I've learned this from my many clients over the years that have moved into new houses and just can't figure out where to begin.
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We all knew the book well because it's the cult book in Latin America. For me, this was a sacred territory. I would not have ventured into it by myself.
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At the end of the day, you have to sit with the scripts and decide where your heart is.
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A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
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Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light - and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau - into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.
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All our symbols have the same purpose; words are merely the symbols we use most commonly. The function of words in human thought is to stand for things which are not present to the senses, and allow the mind to manipulate them-things, concepts, ideas, everything that does not have a physical reality in front of us now.
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The only satisfied rationalists today are blinkered scientists or Marxists.
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We should aim for peaceful coexistence at least and transcultural synergy at best.
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I only know we loved in vain;I only feel - farewell! farewell!
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We do not need to end Medicare. We don't need to throw people who are younger than 55 years old to the wolves which is what we do.
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If I disliked managing, I liked umpiring even less.
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The fact that human conscience remains partially infantile throughout life is the core of human tragedy.
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There are many questions, but I cannot answer because I'm not a businessman, I am a climber.
