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Edmund Hillary Quotes

My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday.

Edmund Hillary

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Relationship Mountains Skiing Year

I got old the way that women who aren't actresses grow old.

Simone Signoret

Women Grow Way Old Got Who

I've been around racing a fairly long time, but when it comes to the important issues, I'm happy to let others make the big decisions.

Mats Sundin

Time Happy Decisions Racing Long

I guess I'm trying to write stuff that I, as a viewer, would connect to.

Mike White

Trying Write Connect Would Stuff

I'd rather play a few nights at the Fillmore than play one night at an arena.

Lucinda Williams

Night Play Rather Than Few Nights

We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on. My wife looked at me and said: 'Boy, you are skinny, aren't you?' I said: 'Honey, I'd like to remind you that it was minor defects like this that kept me from getting a better wife.'

Lou Holtz

Beach Wife Me Better You Honey

My secret vice is Sudoku puzzles. Can't stop playing them. My parents are accountants. I blame them entirely.

Lisa Gardner

Parents Blame Stop Secret Vice Them

Football is like war. It's about taking territory.

Condoleezza Rice

Football War Like Territory Taking

Even though I wish I had a better childhood, I wouldn't trade it, because it made me who I am today. I still respect the people that hurt me.

Ariel Winter

Today Respect Childhood I Am People

I think the context of an hour-long drama gives breathing space that you don't get in a film.

Philip Kerr

Space Think You Drama Breathing Get

Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim.

Susie Orbach

Culture People Fat Landscape Visual

If I had gone to drama school, I wouldn't be sitting here now because it would have blanded me out; it would have just turned me into another actor.

Peter Capaldi

School Me Drama Now Sitting Actor

When I was 12, I first made the decision to go vegetarian after a co-star's line 'I don't eat anything with a face' suddenly shocked me into reality.

Renee Olstead

Decision Me Face Reality Go First