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" Big climbs energize me. It's all the other aspects of being a pro-climber that wear me down. The travel and expeditions and training can become pretty tiring. But the actual big climbs - that's what I live for. "

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" The worst thing that can happen to you in travel is having a gun pointed at you by a very young person. That's happened to me maybe four times in my life. I didn't like it. "

" I want to teach. I want to speak. I want to travel. "

" You don't have to travel, but I find extended travel to be a helpful tool for reexamining yourself and the constraints you've artificially placed on your life. It's easy to believe everything has to be done one way if you're always in one place around the same people. "

" I'd love to travel to the Holy Land. "

" What draws me in is that a trip is a leap in the dark. It's like a metaphor for life. You set off from home, and in the classic travel book, you go to an unknown place. You discover a different world, and you discover yourself. "

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" Anything called the Teflon Corner is not sweet for free-soloing. "

" Anytime you introduce volatility, it is not good for business and not good for travel. "

" Thursday night football is here to stay. So we're looking at ways to make it safer. Now they're playing division games, so you limit travel. Now the question is, should you play Sunday night before a Thursday night? "

" Physical books are still my favorite, but I own an e-book reader. They're convenient for travel. "

" All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. "

" I'm not nostalgic for my glory days in college. It was lame for me. Probably because I had no friends. "

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" I think people read travel books either because they intend to take that trip, or because they would never take that trip. In a sense, as a writer you are doing the travel for the reader. "

" My fans are honestly so unique and so similar. Wherever I travel, they are so, so different but so the same. "

" For years, I meant to read 'Arabian Sands', Wilfred Thesiger's account of two punishing camel journeys during the late 1940s across Southern Arabia's Empty Quarter. Now that I have, I can sheepishly join the chorus of those who revere the book as one of the half dozen greatest works of modern English travel writing. "

" Immortality may be impossible, but imagine what humanity could learn if we all lived 700 years. We could travel deep into utopia and beyond. "

" Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel. "

" You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world. "

" Those are the kinds of roles you can really sink your teeth into. Characters with an edge. When you're playing someone who's sort of seedy, there's less limitation, there's so much space you can travel. There's room to move in. "

" I was told by so many people that I wouldn't succeed because I was too different. Ironically, the very reason that people watch my channel and travel thousands of miles to see a show... is because it's different. God didn't send us to Earth to just blend in. We are here to share what makes us unique. "

" I always want off-the-beaten-path, Anthony Bourdain-inspired travel. "

" Himanshu and I travel together whenever possible, but there are times when I like to travel with my mother and maasi. It is really shocking that trolls comment on that, too. They say 'Don't you get along with your mother-in-law that you don't take her along?' Now, who would accept such remarks about one's mother? "

" Terror, married to technology and accommodated by progress in travel, has turned evil individuals into traveling ballistic missiles. "

" The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. "

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" In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children. "

" Travel at least erodes some of the narrowness that exists in each of us. "

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" Filming typically takes a bit away from the climbing experience, since you have to stop all the time and shoot. "

" I like to be at home because I just travel so much. I have four dogs, golden retrievers. "

" Almost all of my jobs have been on locations. And I think you can be that person who says, 'I have a job that forces me to travel and I'm just going to go ahead and do it and pray for my next flight home.' Or 'this is where I am, this is my life, let me see a part of this world I now live in.' "