"The mountains were there and so was I."

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Source : 1952 His reason for becoming a mountain climber. Quoted in Annapurna: Conquest of the First 8000-metre Peak (1952, translated by Nea Morin and Janet Adam Smith).

Maurice Herzog

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“I've come too far, and I don't know how to get back.”
“I quite enjoy cooking but I'm not consistent. I can't follow the recipe book. If something goes well, I'll never make it again, which is completely stupid. It's a one-shot kind of deal.”
“With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and their families, innocents going about their lives, suddenly and brutally murdered, no other day can ever matter as much.”
“I think people who live in the worlds that movies are based on end up disliking them. Unless they're from a different time and era.”

Source : Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. February 22, 2012.
“I come from election, I come from the people. I owe gratitude to our people. I do everything for the good of the country and the people.”

Source : Interview with Dan Rivers, edition.cnn.com. January 19, 2007.
“In your spare time, google the ingredients in all the foods you are eating. If you care about yourself, you may change your menu”
“It's great when you can bait and switch people - and I don't mean that in a negative way, I mean that in truth. If we were advertising this movie as a very serious indictment about the hunt for war criminals, and it's a very dark drama, it would probably get great reviews, but people would stay away from it because no one wants to be lectured.”
“Veteran performers are dying off, and new acts simply aren't emerging on the national scene.”

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