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My father has always written with Mont Blanc pens. It's very chic and elegant and classic. EVA GREEN Above that particular altitude on the mountain, there was a massive fall of rocks that went straight...
JAMES WAKIBARA
Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains;
They crown'd him long ago
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CHRIS BAILEY When I was born, my parents were huge into skiing. I grew up on Mont Blanc, skiing on that hill. I w...
PATRICK CHAN I think climbing is less a sport and more a hobby, and as such, I think everybody's a beginning clim...
ALEX LOWE Solving a problem for which you know there’s an answer is like climbing a mountain with a guide, a...
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TIM FERRISS I'm not good at being static. I have to be climbing a mountain.
MICHAEL OVITZ That was my amateur background. I fought about 55 fights and took a year off before deciding I wante...
SHELBY GROSS I think climbing is less a sport and more a hobby, and as such, I think everybody's a beginning ...
ALEX LOWE
My memories of my time in high altitude astronomy indicate that there were no oxygen concentration m... STEVEN MAGEE
I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year. NATALIE PORTMAN We've been climbing this mountain. We reached the top in 2005 and now we're on a very high plateau.
PHIL SOPER I used to box a bit, and once fought as an amateur welterweight.
ALEXANDER HANSON Yes, we had made and excursion into another world and we had come back, but we had brought the joy o...
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Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for my... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Are you climbing a mountain, or digging a hole.
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an international reputation for m... UNKNOWN
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I stopped snowboarding as I started to recognize symptoms that corresponded with radiation sickness ... STEVEN MAGEE
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DILIP VENGSARKAR I've always wanted to do a movie that takes place in the 70's and was about rock and roll an...
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BILLY CHILDISH I have asked myself once or twice lately what was my natural bent. I have no doubt at all: It is to ...
GEOFFREY FISHER
For the first time in his life, Mont Blanc for a moment looked to him what it was - a chaos of anarc... HENRY ADAMS
I have always loved astronomy, and being an astronomer once lurked in the back of my mind. But I was... NATALIE BABBITT
I don't bench press, but I use machines to work 10-12 muscle groups. Biceps, triceps, a few thin... VISWANATHAN ANAND
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CAITLIN HALE
The amount of people I met that had heart problems surprised me in high altitude astronomy. I had no... STEVEN MAGEE I would love to one day race as a high level amateur or professional.
CHRISTIAN PARRETT
At one time, I wanted to be a WWE wrestler. I still do. I want to go in the ring once and mess aroun... ROB GRONKOWSKI I am an amateur and I intend to stay that way for the rest of my life.
ANDRE KERTESZ
When I am at a straight club, which is like once a year, if a man even looks in my direction, I verb... JILL BENNETT
I have some close friends I keep in touch with. I knit. I watch a little too much TV. I ski, if the ... MELISSA LEO Cyclists are insane. You're going through the Alps, climbing up mountains. There's this circ...
STEPHEN FREARS
I was once asked to do my Tarzan yell at Bergdorf Goodman, and a guard burst in with a gun! Now I on... CAROL BURNETT
We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ... HARUKI MURAKAMI
By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. E.M. FORSTER I would say I am an amateur guitarist.
RAIN PHOENIX That guy has been a rock all year and I don't have to think twice about his game. He's given us a ch...
KEVYN ADAMS I don't know what being an Everest guide means. I am a coach, not a guide.
ANATOLI BOUKREEV
Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded. ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
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I'll get him drunk at high altitude. Or put a pair of skis on him. NICK FALDO
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I lost in the second round of the French Open and had 10 days off. I went to the Hard Rock Cafe. It ... BORIS BECKER We only used the dining room table about once or twice a year.
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STEPHEN RODRICK I am very happy with my life, but seven or eight months a year, I am away from home. I want to go ho...
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Looking at Mount Kenya in the morning is a holistic experience. I go back at least once a year. JOCHEN ZEITZ
I spent the night on a sliver of rock high up on the east face of Long's Peak, climbing with Tom... JAMES SALTER
I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I ... EDWARD SNOWDEN
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GARY HOPKINS Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing b...
BRADLEY CHICHO I am not looking at this game that way. It's an honor to get selected. I want to go out and win my l...
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With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of her... LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS
There is shadow under this red rock // (Come in under the shadow of this red rock) // And I will sho... T.S. ELIOT
It is proper that noble spirits, equipped with truth and enlightened with the Divine intelligence, s... GIORDANO BRUNO
I had a dozen years to act before starting a family then found that motherhood dwarfed everything el... SISSY SPACEK
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I was trying to find an original style that didn't sound like Tony Bennett or anyone else. So I ... TINY TIM
In climbing, sponsors typically support an athlete but provide very little direction, giving the cli... ALEX HONNOLD Mountains were once my big adventure but is is over since a long time; I still dream from the wonder...
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