Ranulph Fiennes Quotes

No one will pay you for planning an expedition at first: you have to work in pubs at weekends so you can pay the gas bills. I joined the Territorial Army, which paid me when I turned up to drill nights, and so did my wife.

Ranulph Fiennes

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I like to think of my work and the way people approach it in the same way people approach a Lichtenstein painting. You can write a one-hundred-page dissertation about why he used comics. Or it could be like, 'This is cute!'

Jeremy Scott

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I'm not a religious person by any means. But I'm curious.

Jenny Lewis

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I had a briefcase at one point, but it was a kind of 1980s New Wave briefcase. It was made of some kind of cardboard and it had metal hinges. It was kind of faux industrial looking, and I used to carry my books in it rather than a backpack. I didn't want to have normal student accoutrements.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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In a large bureaucracy, you cannot exercise the transformation of any situation without coopting bureaucracy.

Anand Mahindra

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Criticism can be devastating. When push comes to shove, we are all very sensitive.

Steve Vai

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In an earthquake, I shouldn't run out of the house - I should run into it.

Tony Danza

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With today's mass media obsession, it's good to be able to raise awareness about our environment.

Robin McLeavy

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It don't take a lot to make me happy. I'm not spoiled like that.

Ludacris

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I like to think I play rugby as it should be played - there are no yellow or red cards in my collection - but I cannot say I'm an angel.

Jonny Wilkinson

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Super-Earths are how we call a family of planets... up to two times larger and about ten times more massive than the Earth.

Dimitar Sasselov

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Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

Denis Diderot

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I think that's the great thing, ya' know, that women can do anything that they want now.

Cindy Margolis

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