"I was super skeptical about doing TV. I said no three times, part of which was confidence because I didn't really understand that world. I know how to climb mountains and do all that, but I wasn't a TV person."

-- Bear Grylls

#Mountain Quotes #Three Quotes #World Quotes

“I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.”

Source : New York Daily News, 2000.
“Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in.”
“Because operators are based thousands of miles away from the battlefield, and undertake operations entirely through computer screens and remote audio feed, there is a risk of developing a 'PlayStation' mentality to killing.”

Source : "Drone warfare: life on the new frontline" by Chris Woods, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2015.
“Whoever wants to tell a variety of stories ought to have a variety of beginnings.”

Source : Marie (de France) (1978). “The lais of Marie de France”, Dutton Adult
“The truth is, anyone who puts so much of herself and her life into art as you do must naturally fear any failure in that art as a potential threat to your life. And so you protect your art more than you protect your health or the common forms of happiness the rest of us have. And you probably have this in common with every artist you admire.”
“The trace left behind is substituted for the practice. It exhibits the (voracious) property that the geographical system has of being able to transform action into legibility, but in doing so it causes a way of being in the world to be forgotten.”

Source : Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.97, Univ of California Press
“When you get right down to it, one of the most important tasks of a leader is to eliminate his people's excuse for failure.”
“London clubland divides itself between the St James's refuge for toffs, and the Conquest of Cool, for the arts and media.”

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