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Edmund Hillary Quotes

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: explorer
Nationality: new zealander
Birth: July 20, 1919 - January 11, 2008

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Time Everest Mount Everest Who Mount

When I was writing stories about Chinese American characters in my fiction classes, I'd get comments like, 'You should consider writing more universal stories.' But anything can happen to a Chinese American girl - just as much of the canon of English literature involves white men or women.

Women Girl Men Writing American You

A lot of people, when they look at the whole trans thing, they think,'Oh, you're transgender, and in the fashion industry, which is very pro-LGBT, so you don't have any problems because it's a progressive place.' But that's not the reality.

People Fashion Problems Reality Look

It is Proust's implacable honesty, his reluctance to cut corners or to articulate what might have been good enough or credible enough in any other writer that make him the introspective genius he is.

Good Honesty Genius Enough Him Cut

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

Meister Eckhart

Love God Best Compassion Name You

If I wasn't doing this kind of exploration, I'd like to be doing some other kind of exploration. It might be more risky, or less risky, but, in the business of exploration, risk is part of the territory.

John L. Phillips

Business Doing Exploration Kind Risk

I am a big fan of the Impressionists, and in my school days, I was inspired by Caravaggio, Velazquez and Rembrandt.

School I Am School Days Days Big Am

Interestingly, I matured as a musician and as an artist before I matured as a man. What I mean by that is, I was ready to be completely vulnerable and honest with myself and unapologetic when it comes to how I express myself in my medium. But I wasn't as secure in doing that when it came to just being myself.

Myself Man Being Myself Doing Artist

Each day of the Obama presidency seems to bring a new, perversely delicious irony.

Day New Irony Bring Presidency Each

There was a time in the mid-'50s when the Philippines was in the same league as Japan economically and academics-wise.

Time Same Philippines Japan League

I know what I did and how I accomplished it. I am proud of it and know that it was done with integrity.

Integrity I Am Proud Know Done How

I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener.

Music Light White Spirit Prism Only

In the late 1980s the amount of German films was down to four or five percent of the market, and the remaining 95 percent were American. It is now 20 to 30 percent German productions.

American Late Down Now Market Four

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