Conrad Anker Quotes
Specifically choose not to take a GPS. Just create a challenge. You can climb Everest or walk across Antarctica with minimal gear and still have that sense of adventure. But in terms of exploration, Google Earth has this world mapped down to the square foot.
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If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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The real challenge is if you don't look super sexy, like a Brad Pitt, you're going to have to try harder. You're going to have to make up for it in other ways.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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Knowing constitutional law helps one at the opera. The trial in 'Billy Budd,' as example, invokes the fugitive slave clause of the U.S. Constitution.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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There were so many pretty girls coming into the salon as clients, and others working in the salon. And I thought, 'Hmm. This is rather nice.'
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.
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The pain of hope dying is worse than his fists and boots.
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Disarmament without checks is but a shadow - and a community without law is but a shell.
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Home is where the people who live there need me to come home to them, and worry about me when I'm gone. There's no such place on this earth, no matter how far I drive.
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I was brought in touch with developing post World War I ideas in Europe.
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In essence, science is a perpetual search for an intelligent and integrated comprehension of the world we live in.
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Specifically choose not to take a GPS. Just create a challenge. You can climb Everest or walk across Antarctica with minimal gear and still have that sense of adventure. But in terms of exploration, Google Earth has this world mapped down to the square foot.
