Jon Krakauer Quotes

When I was 23, I climbed this mountain in Alaska called Devil's Thumb alone. It was incredibly dangerous, and I did it because I thought that if I did something that hard and pulled it off, my life was gonna be transformed. And of course, nothing happened. But I get the search for purpose.

Jon Krakauer

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 12, 1954

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Sometimes there are no good guys. There are no bad guys. It seems like everybody is in the middle.

Jim Mattis

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The minute you start putting words on paper you're eliminating possibilities.

Joan Didion

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When you're constantly involved in domination, what you're really looking for is constant highs.

Joel Edgerton

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I'm working on my own work, my own publishing company.

John Van Hamersveld

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My mom kind of led me toward acting. She wanted to be an actress when she was younger. That made me interested in it when I was a kid, because she and I are very close.

Stephen Colbert

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We need to force Iran to dismantle its nuclear program entirely or face the threat of military force to destroy that program.

Tom Cotton

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Rehearsing is more about blocking in the case of movies, I think, and blocking, of course, is very important to the beauty of a scene.

Rod Lurie

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One of my major goals is to develop a web of the small Wyoming museums and create a major museum system. There are about eight of these museums, and they are all scattered.

Robert T. Bakker

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Most critics of gender division are women, and they're worried about girls and the roles presented for them by gendered entertainments. They are quite right to be. Telling girls that the cars and the guns are beyond their domain of expertise, and that they should content themselves with clothes and friendships, is limiting.

Russell Smith

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We have to be thankful to the Czechs that they did their duty. The Czech Republic won, I can't believe it. It was a huge party with all the people here.

Ruud van Nistelrooy

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I think most people think of ballerinas as kind of either as a fairytale, far-away thing that's really not attainable, something they can't grasp, or they think of them as European or Russian and kind of their nose up in the air. So, it's cool for me to, like, sit with them and for them to really see themselves as me.

Misty Copeland

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I've been lucky. I've been at a place that's a meritocracy. It doesn't really matter that much what your gender is if you do the work well.

Mildred Dresselhaus

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