Conrad Anker Quotes
If people see me giving back to the military, they'll hopefully follow suit and be good to these guys who have done so much. I'm not Lance Armstrong or Tiger Woods - I'm just an old, gray-beard mountain climber, but I'm hoping to inspire people to follow my way.
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I am not an American; I am the American.
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
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I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.
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Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.
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I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella.
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First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.
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The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.
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Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story.
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I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
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I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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Let's face it, us '60s folks had pretty high expectations.
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The plastic bottle we're throwing away every day still stays there. And if we show that to people, then we can also promote some behavioral change.
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Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.
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Having a son is not all pleasure.
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We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.
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In Australia, we've always been a country that runs the ball right up the middle on the fifth tackle. We've never seen a challenge we didn't like, and we've certainly never run from one.
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It is terrible when an infant dies, but worse, most people think, when a three-year-old child dies, and worse still when an adolescent does.
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One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.
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You can't kill a vegetable by shooting it in the head.
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A good ending is vital to a picture, the single most important element, because it is what the audience takes with them out of the theater.
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I think people enjoy reading about money, but the people who are in charge of giving me guidance tell me not to talk about it in interviews. Why not? That's what everybody thinks about.
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If people see me giving back to the military, they'll hopefully follow suit and be good to these guys who have done so much. I'm not Lance Armstrong or Tiger Woods - I'm just an old, gray-beard mountain climber, but I'm hoping to inspire people to follow my way.
