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Jon Krakauer Quotes

I guess I don't try to justify climbing or defend it, because I can't. I see climbing as a compulsion that, at its best, is no worse than many other compulsions - golf or stamp collecting or growing world-record pumpkins.

Jon Krakauer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Best Golf Growing Try Defend See

Actually, before 'Super 8,' I didn't even have a game console. But now I do. For a kickoff for 'Super 8,' they gave us all brand new PlayStation 3s.

Joel Courtney

Game Brand New Now Playstation Us

But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in.

Mel Torme

Song Fairness Shallow Pretty Really

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Jean Paul

Life Wisdom Sand More See Through

I took the ET job because I wanted to stop traveling and they said I would only work half a day. Then I could work on music the rest of the day. They put in my contract that I wouldn't work after 1 P.M.

John Tesh

Work Music Day Job Rest Stop

My father made me take three years of Latin in high school.

Robert David Hall

Father School Me High School Three

It is important to be chic.

Roberto Cavalli

Important Chic

I train a lot of celebrities, including a lot of women who work for Victoria's Secret as Angels.

Mary Helen Bowers

Work Women Train Angels Secret Who

Maybe we're kind of predisposed to think that anything a politician does is calculated and therefore suspect.

Deborah Tannen

Think Kind Anything Politician Maybe

I got hooked to American news like a great TV season. It plays like fiction. I would come home from work, and I would put it on, and I would stay up until 2 in the morning watching it and get up in the morning and watch it.

David Thewlis

Work Home Morning Great American Up

Muhammed Ali is my favorite boxer, and the reason that I love Ali is because he's not undefeated. It's because of the fact that he risked it all at times and lost - but then came back.

Cheo Hodari Coker

Love Back Lost Reason Undefeated He

I'm lucky with my skin - it doesn't require a lot of attention, so I keep things simple. And I drink a lot of water.

Arizona Muse

Water Simple Attention Skin Lucky

I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier.

Anne Lamott

Life Mother Great My Life She Carry