#mount

It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#climb #mountains #out #pebble #shoe

There was really no friendship in modeling, though a certain amount of warmth comes from running into models you know on shoots, because you end up in so many unfamiliar places, from Alaska to Africa. ↗

— Carol Alt

#alaska #amount #because #certain #comes

There are more people at Obama's table offering ideas than there were five years ago, but when it came to facing up to the Republicans' threat to force a double-dip recession if they didn't get their millionaires' tax cut, they still amounted to nothing. And therein lies our fundamental problem. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#amounted #came #cut #facing #five

Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#broad #everything #exists #intoxicate #kind

I was under contract to Paramount. They wanted to make me into somebody which I was not. So I got so scared and rebelled, so they threw me out of the studio. ↗

— Ursula Andress

#got #i #into #make #me

People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#birds #breeds #commonly #existence #fall

I like working in theatre now and I think that once you've done a certain amount of films most actors love working in the theatre because of the camaraderie. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#because #camaraderie #certain #done #films

The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#enormous #i #lot #my time #one thing

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It's sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#amount #been #direction #investments #most

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

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