Aron Ralston Quotes
I kind of entered a flow state. I've been there before while climbing. You are not thinking ahead. You are just thinking about what is in front of you each second.
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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
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My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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Then all of a sudden, Quentin Tarantino comes along and puts a song from 40 years ago in one of his films and they've suddenly discovered you. That was a real gift that Quentin gave me.
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I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write.
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I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
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This is America, not a banana republic.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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Church attendance rates among white Americans without a college education have dropped pretty significantly. People with college degrees are more likely to go to church than people without college degrees among the white working class.
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I mark the reading of 'Look Homeward, Angel' as one of the pivotal events of my life. It starts off with the single greatest, knock-your-socks-off first page I have ever come across in my careful reading of world literature.
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I've been in Los Angeles for a while, and the kind of psychological connection that one makes to people, it just doesn't happen out here.
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'A pessimist is simply an optimist in full possession of the facts.'
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The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.
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The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?
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Maybe we just like winners, ... We hope some of that will carry over to the Redskins.
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Tax day was yesterday. And marijuana growers are complaining that they can't write off a single expense thanks to federal laws. Well, apparently someone tried to claim the Phish tour as his home office and that's not going to happen.
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I love thinking, I love coming up with great ideas. I just get excited. Sometimes if I get a big idea, I'm just like a kid, like I've found a new toy.
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I kind of entered a flow state. I've been there before while climbing. You are not thinking ahead. You are just thinking about what is in front of you each second.
