"I was eight when we came to Australia. It was five amazing weeks onboard this ship - it was the Northern Star."

-- Graeme Base

#Stars Quotes #Eight Quotes #Australia Quotes

“I wouldn't be the man I am today, If not for those I've loved along the way”
“Business is all about focus. But with focus comes myopia and to conquer that, I come in to shake things up. To be invited as a keynote speaker is to have a license to interfere and interrupt.”
“A lot of people question how talented I am. But I'm a real dude and I know real things and I've seen real people get their head blown off.”
“I could never get a real good clear picture of what I could become.”

Source : "Master of the Knuckleball". Interview with Jeremy Stahl, www.slate.com. October 29, 2012.
“I decided I was just going to sing the type of songs I gravitated toward and inspired me and moved me. I was going to let the people whose job it was to decide what places to put it, and let them do that. I'll stick to the singing part.”
“She dumped me for the worst reason of all. For absolutely no reason at all...I mean, if she fell in love with someone else, or I did something wrong, or I let her down in some unforgivable way...That, I'd understand, right? But instead, she said...it wasn't anything. Not a single thing. It was just me. I was nice. I was kind. We just...she didn't see the connection anymore. I think she thought I was boring. And the cruelest part is, when someone says something mean about you, you know when they're right.”
“You get addicted to emotions. Our endorphins kick in and it's like a high. On the low end you might love roller coasters. On the high end you might be a bank robber or something.”
“I may not have proved a great explorer, but we have done the greatest march ever made and come very near to great success.”

Source : Robert Falcon Scott, Max Jones (2008). “Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition”, p.416, Oxford University Press

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