Bertrand Piccard Quotes

I'm learning kite surfing. It's a little surfboard you have on your feet with straps, and you have a big kite like a power glider in the air that pulls you. You don't need waves to move, and it makes a big spray of water as you go.

Bertrand Piccard

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Food is a way to explore culture and ground the story in a specific time and place. I still remember the meals and snacks from my first novel, 'Shug': pork chops and applesauce and Coca-Cola and peanuts, which are very Southern. When a character has roots elsewhere, food is a way to connect with home and another culture.

Jenny Han

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If a columnist writes that something happened on a certain date, or that the government spent a certain amount of money on something, or that a specific number of people have died in the war in Iraq, to pick a few examples, it is his or her responsibility to make certain that information is correct.

Andrew Rosenthal

ResponsibilityMoneyGovernmentWar

It is time to return to core values, time to get back to basics, to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for the others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family - and not shuffling it off on other people and the state.

John Major

FamilyRespectTimeResponsibility

Some of the snowballs have a kind of animal energy. Not just because of the materials inside them, but in the way that they appear caged, captured.

Andy Goldsworthy

AnimalEnergyJust BecauseKindWay

My mother painted and wrote. She always had a painting in progress on an easel in the kitchen, so our house always smelled like oil paint. At night, she wrote after she'd put my sisters and me to bed, and the sound of her typing was our lullaby.

Luanne Rice

MotherProgressMePaintingNight

I've never thought about it in training, 'If I do this, then maybe I can be on the SPOTY shortlist.'

Lizzie Armitstead

TrainingThoughtI CanNeverMaybe

The good thing about helping an actor create a performance is, you really don't know how you're going to do it. It's a challenge every time you get to the set. That keeps the energy flowing all the time.

Juan Antonio Bayona

GoodTimeChallengeEnergyYouKnow

More idiots should just shut their mouths.

Chris Martin

MoreIdiotsJustShutShouldMouths

There's many ups and downs in the fight game.

Conor McGregor

FightGameUps And DownsManyDowns

Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood.

Clint Eastwood

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It is a fact that the Left routinely resists, then as now: Americans fought and died in Vietnam for freedom, just as they are doing in Iraq and Afghanistan today. Whatever mistakes generals and policymakers have made along the way cannot detract from that essential truth - which should be a part of any reliable history.

Arthur L. Herman

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I'm a Darwinian.

Peter Greenaway

Darwinian

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