"If you want to swim across the English……" — Lewis Gordon
"If you want to swim across the English Channel from England to France - you have to leave your doubt on the beach in England."
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12 Quotes by Lewis Gordon
Lewis Gordon has 12 quotes on this site.
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Ultimately I wanted to be a pioneer swimmer, a distant descendant of Scott, Amundsen and Hillary, except that I would…
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Going against the tide has never been difficult for me. It wasn't even a conscious decision but the natural consequence…
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If we pass on an unsustainable environment to our children we have failed them.
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The right to have our environment protected for the benefit of present and future generations is our most important human…
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There is nothing more powerful than the made up mind.
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The swim at Deception Island was by far the hardest swim I've ever done. Antarctica is a very unforgiving environment.…
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When I'm preparing for a swim, I imagine absolutely everything about it: the color of the water, how cold it…
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The days of exploration of Shackleton and Scott are long gone. Everything has been climbed, crossed, done. Now what we're…
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Of all the creatures in the world that really frighten me - the hyena in Africa, the great white shark…
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We need to save the Arctic not because of the polar bears, and not because it is the most beautiful…
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When I was born, the world's population was 3.5 billion. There are now 6.8 billion people on the planet. By…
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More Across Quotes
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Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.
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I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody…
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The School Energy Crisis Relief Act authorizes the Secretary of Energy to issue energy assistance grants to help the poorest…
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A few years ago, I bought an old red bicycle with the words Free Spirit written across its side -…
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According to some Eastern religion, there is a belt that goes across the world, and I've heard that Minnesota is…
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As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of…
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When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you…
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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
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The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse…
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Philately is normally a boys' hobby but for some reason it was in vogue at my junior school. Between the…
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If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.
— Theodor Adorno
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But it's not just the cattle producers, it's all the attendant industries like transport and shipping and feed producers and…
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