"I think the whole attitude towards climbing Mount Everest has become rather horrifying. The people just want to get to the top. They don't give a damn for anybody else who may be in distress and it doesn't impress me at all that they leave someone lying under a rock to die."

-- Edmund Hillary

#Attitude Quotes #Lying Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly.”
“All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be, I am a dancer. But I don't think I would be on 'Dancing with the Stars,' mainly because I would be too shy.”
“The challenge for me, and for Asian models in general has been convincing editors, stylists and photographers that we can have mass appeal, but Asian, especially Chinese models have become a stronger presence. Just a season or two ago, there weren't many models for me to talk with backstage in my native Mandarin. Now I usually have no trouble finding someone at any show.”
“Our greatest strengths are our greatest weaknesses.”

Source : Gordon Livingston (2009). “Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now”, p.49, Da Capo Press
“My strong suit is that I've been willing to risk on the page to get somewhere interesting.”

Source : "'Morrissey's hair, bongs made of apples, MTV's 120 Minutes': Inside this month's hottest new books". Interview with Teddy Wayne, www.salon.com. May 20, 2015.
“How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person?”

Source : David Sheff (2009). “Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction”, p.96, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I'm sick of women telling other women what men want them to look like.”
“I bow to my opponent in praise and thanks. After the fight is a time for humility, acceptance and analysis, no matter the result.”

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