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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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"Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being."
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"I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?"
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"There is a story which is not being told strongly enough of the Afghan employees of the UN inside the country who are saving hundreds of thousands of lives everyday by their bravery and nobody talks of them."
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"Dave was great in Van Halen. No question about it. He was one of the best at being Mr. Rock Star. But it's sickening to see a guy still trying to be that with a wig on 20 years later."
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"Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common."
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"We're not that far from being able to plant images, memories, and emotional states directly into the brain."
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"I am reluctant to judge things without being informed."
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"You know, I live a monastic lifestyle. No, I do. I do live in extremes, basically. I go back and forth. Once every six months, I'll have a day where I eat more chocolate than has ever been consumed by a human being."
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"Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black."
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"I've always been more drawn to being normal than being famous."
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"I travel to Jakarta, I see what an important country it is. I've been working with them for a year."
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"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."
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"I don't know what being an Everest guide means. I am a coach, not a guide."
Being

"People respected my experience, they hire me, they pay me what I am worth to coach their team."
Experience

"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."
Quality

"There are many questions, but I cannot answer because I'm not a businessman, I am a climber."
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"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."
Business

"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."
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"I want this book to be facts, to be important, to be history."
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"I respect Everest very much."
Respect
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