Jimmy Chin Quotes

The mainstream audience has a certain picture of what climbing is all about: man conquering mountain. But you can't conquer a mountain, though it may conquer you.

Jimmy Chin

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As a matter of historical analysis, the relationship between secrecy and privacy can be stated in an axiom: the defense of privacy follows, and never precedes, the emergence of new technologies for the exposure of secrets.

Jill Lepore

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It's important to remember that Bush Derangement Syndrome on the left - comparing him to Hitler, calling him a terrorist and a tyrant - preceded Obama Derangement Syndrome on the right.

John Avlon

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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.

John Dalberg-Acton

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This goes for our songwriting as well as our success as a band - the minute we stopped chasing what we thought people wanted to hear and started writing things that moved us, that's when people started paying attention.

Matthew Ramsey

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London audiences are tricky, too. They don't laugh as much as the Northern audiences because, and I hate to say this, they are a bit cleverer normally, and they are picking up on all the little details and listening more carefully.

Steve Coogan

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Know yourself; keep your circle tight. Keep your friends and your work circle tight.

Rita Ora

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Strings of gravity vibrate at a different frequency than strings of light.

Roy H. Williams

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Failing to continue to support the public higher-ed system in California will have devastating long-term consequences.

Mitch Kapor

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As a director, there's no natural career progression. So after 'The Wackness,' which was very personal to me, I was very, very picky about what I was going to do next, to the point where I think that I was almost too picky.

Jonathan Levine

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Antwone's story was a story of hope and that's what appealed to me. I needed hope myself at that time. I think all actors give up at some time and think they're never going to make it.

Derek Luke

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We damaged all the big guns we could, and carried away the powder and the lead.

Chief Joseph

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I don't know if it's animalistic or what, but men become like peacocks with their feathers up when women are around.

Bradley Cooper

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