Ben Saunders Quotes
Environmental scientists in Canada said it was impossible for me to get to the Pole in 2004... I said 'no,' it's still OK, and I can still get there, and I did.
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There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
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If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.
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Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?
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I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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The moment we finished shooting for 'Bruce Lee,' my wife Upasana reminded of a pending holiday.
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I'm just glad to be able to work.
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I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym.
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I think people think of Oregon as such a granola, hippie kind of a place.
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It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
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I have a paralyzing fear of snakes.
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I've never been competitive with anybody but myself.
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If you aren't having fun, if you aren't anxious to find out what happens next as you write, then not only will you run out of steam on the story, but you won't be able to entertain anyone else, either.
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Things can get only so bad. People want to eat, so at some point they resist further cuts to their consumption - it's not a bottomless pit.
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I'm a Jane Austen/Jane Eyre kind of girl.
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Feeling anxious or depressed sometimes is part of what it means to be a person, and it might even be essential to success.
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It is forbidden to be merciful to them. You must send missiles to them and annihilate them. They are evil and damnable. … The Lord shall return the Arabs' deeds on their own heads, waste their seed and exterminate them, devastate them and vanish them from this world.
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May the wind always be at your back and the sun upon your face, and the winds of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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The first cellphone I owned was hardly a slim, high-tech device - it was more like a brick with buttons, only with worse reception. If you wanted to use your phone to give someone a message, you were better off throwing it at him and hoping you broke his car window.
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You can compare me with Greta Garbo. I have big feet, too.
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Environmental scientists in Canada said it was impossible for me to get to the Pole in 2004... I said 'no,' it's still OK, and I can still get there, and I did.
