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Edmund Hillary Quotes

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Science Money Mountains Climb Hell

Hip-hop, which is my generation's blues, is important to the characters that I write about. They use hip-hop to understand the world through language.

World Language Generation Understand

Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.

Men Opinions Anticipation Others

Fighting means you could lose. Bullying means you can't. A bully wants to beat somebody; he doesn't want to fight somebody.

Bullying Fight Fighting You Lose

I haven't taught since 2004, but I taught high school English for seven years, primarily at a place called Haddonfield Memorial, which is in a very well-to-do-community in Southern New Jersey.

School High School Place New High

Indian writers in English are rank individualists. Even among the progressives, there is a strain of anti-leftism, or at least a suspicion of any organized politics.

Politics Organized Suspicion English

I'm pretty much an isolated person. I'd rather stay home and play video games.

Home Video Games Person Play Games

This is like one thing that I've tried to do, and I think successfully, that when you realize that nothing really belongs to you, you begin to appreciate having an understanding of just where your head is at, and you feel so much better.

Think Appreciate Better Understanding

I was shy and really into my school work and my drama. Then I joined 'EastEnders' at 16, and it was work, work, work. You become very isolated. I rarely went out and so didn't get to meet anyone.

Work School You Drama Meet Become

Let's focus on how we can take someone who is being poorly educated in an American public school and how they are poorly trained for a job, and put in place those opportunities for them to get that education, give their parents choice in education, make it real for them.

Education Focus Job School Parents

As a songwriter, I go into the studio, and I just try to write a great song.

Great Song Go Try Write Just

What is the secret of Stalin's unquestioned strength? He controls every wheel and screw of the party machine, which is the source of authority and power in the Soviet Union.

Strength Power Party Wheel Authority

Crystal-clear thinking is one of the things we look for - not a fancy slide pitch, but crystal-clear thinking.

Thinking Look Fancy Things Slide

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