"If you've climbed the first 140 meters it doesn't mean that you've succeeded; you are going to succeed by climbing the last 10 meters."

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Source : "Alain Robert: 'French Spiderman' on his death-defying stunts". Interview with Stefanie Blendis, Rosie Tomkins, Teo Kermeliotis, www.cnn.com. April 21, 2010.

Alain Robert

#Mean Quotes #Climbing Quotes #Lasts Quotes

“Bachelors begin at thirty-six. Up till this age they are regarded as single men.”

Source : Jilly Cooper (2011). “Men And Supermen”, p.22, Random House
“A man is so in the way in the house.”
“I take a dose of mathematics every day to prevent my brain from becoming quite soft.”
“Good for you, you have a heart, you can be a liberal. Now, couple your heart with your brain, and you can be a conservative.”

Source : "The Glenn Beck Program", October 5, 2006.
“It is their nature, beautiful and simple. That you would destroy such beings, Mr. Lincoln, such superior creatures, seems madness to me.â€ â€œThat you speak of them with such reverence, Mr. Poe, seems madness to me.â€ "Can you imagine it? Can you imagine seeing the universe through such eyes? Laughing in the face of time and deathâ€”the world your Garden of Eden? Your library? Your harem?”
“My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.”
“These television shows that have 14 shots of somebody looking at each other with the wind blowing through their hair drive me insane.”

Source : "Job Title: The 'Gilmore' Noodge". Interview with Virginia Heffernan, www.nytimes.com. January 23, 2005.
“Getting what you want doesn't make you happy, growth makes you happy, raising your level of consciousness. The problem with most people, they don't know what they want because they start at a very early age being programmed to think that they can't have what they want.”

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