Edmund Hillary Quotes

I don't regard myself as a cracking good climber. I'm just strong in the back. I have a lot of enthusiasm, and I'm good on ice.

Edmund Hillary

Recitation: by Male by Female

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GoodMyselfStrongEnthusiasmIce

Life's more amusing than we thought.

Andrew Lang

LifeThoughtMoreThanAmusing

The search for happiness has long been a dominant feature of American life. It's a byproduct of prosperity, not to mention the most famous line in the Declaration of Independence.

Meghan Daum

LifeHappinessIndependenceSearch

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

John Henry Newman

EvilCorruptionOwnOnlyExcess

For me, New York is home because that's where I'm from.

Amy Heckerling

HomeNew YorkMeNewWhereBecause

All metallics are neutrals. So it is absolutely fine to mix gold and silver; you just want it to look like it has purpose.

Stacy London

PurposeGoldYouLookWantSilver

If you let the plot be determined by what you feel is in the character's mind at that point, it may not turn out to be a very good play, but at least it will be a play where people are behaving in a kind of truthful way.

Tom Stoppard

GoodCharacterPeopleMindFeelYou

Retiring is getting ready to die.

Rodger Ward

DieReadyGettingRetiring

The biggest container ship can carry fifteen thousand boxes. It can hold 746 million bananas, one for every European, on one ship.

Rose George

ShipCarryHoldBoxesMillionEvery

Jazz was a bomb. That was also the low point of Mac sales. People had just written it off.

Mitch Kapor

PeopleJazzSalesPointLowOff

I grew up in New York City. I went to museums so much as a kid, and I guess I didn't realize how much it affected me.

Lisa Randall

New YorkCityMeNewMuseumsKid

EDM is, like... Event-Driven Marketing, I think, is the acronym there. It reminds me a lot of disco. That had some hang-time, like, 10, 15, 17 years tops... Not too many people are forward-thinking about electronic music. They're just kinda like, 'Now, now, now - do it, do it.'

Deadmau5

MusicPeopleMeThinkDiscoNow

My only crime was being born black - or being born black in Alabama.

Anthony Ray Hinton

BlackBornCrimeAlabamaBeingOnly

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