Edmund Hillary Quotes

Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer.

Edmund Hillary

Recitation: by Male by Female

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I didn't know Penn was an Ivy League school - I didn't know what the Ivy League was. When I got in, they sent me the package, and the tuition was my mother's salary for a year. My mom said, 'We can't afford it.' So I went to the library and found several scholarships and grants and was able to cover 90 percent of my education that way.

Stacy Brown-Philpot

EducationMotherSchoolMeMomYear

I installed a skylight in my apartment... the people who live above me are furious!

Steven Wright

LivePeopleMeApartmentAboveWho

Had I not done Shakespeare, Pinter, Moliere and things such as 'Godspell' - I played Judas in a hugely successful production before I did 'Elm Street' - I'd probably be on a psychiatrist's couch saying: 'Freddy ruined me.' But I'd already done 13 movies and years of non-stop theatre.

Robert Englund

MeTheatreSayingDoneStreetYears

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people's throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

Joyce Meyer

PeopleBelieveThinkTryingDown

We've had enough with the gun traffickers and straw purchasers who buy guns out of state and sell them out of the trunks of their cars in Chicago.

Dick Durbin

GunEnoughChicagoOutGunsSell

It will require a sustained military and financial commitment by the international community, working with the government of Afghanistan, to create the environment in which enduring democratic institutions can be established.

Des Browne

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The summit is what drives us, but the climb itself is what matters.

Conrad Anker

ClimbMattersUsSummitDrives

I try to live joyfully and the by the rule of treating others how you'd want to be treated - that's a good one to stick by.

Chris Pine

GoodLiveYouWantTryOthers

One thing I learned working at the Brooklyn Navy Yard was to be on time. If the day begins at 8 A.M., be there early, get there, punch the time clock; don't just stand there like an oaf.

Pete Hamill

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They'll say, That's funny, but you can't do that on TV.

Shawn Wayans

FunnyYouSayTV

The bands that wrote the big, heroic rock songs - I really wanted to make a record like that.

Sheryl Crow

RockBigMakeLikeSongsHeroic

I get a lot of flack from critics that my comedies are all over the place, my dramas are all over the place, they're schizophrenic - as if I don't know that!

Tyler Perry

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