"My life and the life of my family has to do with exploration, with adventure. My grandfather was the first man in the stratosphere, and my father was the first to touch the deepest point in the ocean... For me, adventure and exploration is something in the blood."

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Source : "Adventurer sets sights on the sun for an 'impossible' dream". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. January 19, 2010.

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“I have had many more close women friends than men, and I've always assumed that comes from the fact that in my family there was such a disproportionate female element.”
“Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.”
“More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable.”

Source : Michel de Certeau, Pierre Mayol (1998). “The Practice of Everyday Life: Living and cooking. Volume 2”, p.134, U of Minnesota Press
“All the filmmakers I've worked with have taken my desire to educate myself very seriously.”

Source : Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. November 21, 2007.
“...I know that in your heart you miss all those wonderful moments you spent with my father --watching him gnaw on the furniture, listening to his insane gibbering, and enjoying all those playful blows to the stomach and kicks to the head with which he demonstrated his affection for his wives. --King Urgit”
“I have seen the vision and for self I cannot live; Life is less than worthless till my all I give.”
“It was as important to live poetically as to write poems.”

Source : James Broughton (1990). “Special deliveries: new and selected poems”, Broken Moon Pr
“Some people can never learn to ski powder snow without exerting tremendous effort and strength because they allow their rational, left-brain hemisphere to control the entire situation.”

Source : Dolores Lachapelle (1984). “Earth Wisdom”, Finn Hill Art

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