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"I don't know what being an Everest guide means. I am a coach, not a guide."
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"The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat."
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"Everything in the world can be changed, my dear Florestan, but the human being."
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"Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon."
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"I'm excited about being an owner, it's got my competitive juices going. I'm scared, but excited as well."
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"I don't know if I like being the sentimental favorite."
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"I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it."
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"If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined."
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"A year ago I was in the city of Genoa, and I found that it returned seven representatives to the Sardinian Parliament at Turin, seven being its fair share, calculated according to the population of the various cities and districts of the Sardinian kingdom."
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"The admiral, or commander in chief of a squadron, being frequently invested with a great charge, on which the fate of a kingdom may depend, ought certainly to be possessed of abilities equal to so important a station and so extensive a command."
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"Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it's just an illusion."
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"A review of summit day photographs will show that I was clothed in the latest, highest quality, high altitude gear, comparable, if not better, than that worn by the other members of our expedition."
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"I explained I wanted to descend as quickly as possible to camp IV in order to warm myself and gather a supply of hot drink and oxygen in the event I might need to go back up the mountain to assist descending climbers."
Adventure
"I want this book to be facts, to be important, to be history."
History
"This year my role is clear: I am a coach, a coach to sportsmen."
Coach
"There are many questions, but I cannot answer because I'm not a businessman, I am a climber."
Question
"I told them, you can succeed - it's not likely the first time, maybe 25 per cent, but you CAN succeed. You can also die. By April 16 they had already been to camp III, well ahead of most teams."
Time
"I think that people ran out of oxygen and don't really know what happened up there, maybe some of them just made things up because they weren't sure what had happened."
People
"I travel to Jakarta, I see what an important country it is. I've been working with them for a year."
Travel
"I don't know what being an Everest guide means. I am a coach, not a guide."
Being
"I am not sure the others are as committed as Rob Hall and Scott Fischer. I think there is more business now, and I know it will be impossible to stop this Everest business."
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