#climb

As I climbed the electoral ladder - from state assemblyman to mayor of Woodbridge and finally to governor of New Jersey - political compromises came easy to me because I'd learned how to keep a part of myself innocent of them. ↗

— James McGreevey

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It's about a young man who has climbed to fame and he discovers that his writing and the relationship with his wife are really more important for him than anything else. ↗

— Ismail Merchant

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By my third year of Law and Order, I was climbing the walls. But you don't leave a hit show, especially when you have a five-year contract. ↗

— Chris Noth

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I don't ever remember them telling us or teaching us that the only way we could be more successful is if other people were less successful. They never inculcated the belief that somehow, in order for us to climb the ladder, other people have to come down from the ladder. ↗

— Marco Rubio

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But I think there's something wonderful and extraordinary about climbing on your own and just that kind of relationship to the environment. I'm very addicted to the mountains. You know, so, I do like that solitude. ↗

— Andy Serkis

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When I played Gollum in 'Lord of the Rings,' if I was climbing up the side of a mountain, which I physically did, you know, I was on every single occasion swimming through streams, all of that, that wasn't captured. That was filmed on 35 millimeter, and for certain of those shots, it was rotoscoped and painted over. ↗

— Andy Serkis

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And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again. ↗

— Bram Stoker

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Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees. ↗

— Frances Perkins

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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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If you were to climb up on your desk, walk around behind your monitor and lean way over so you could see the screen, you'd be able to read "Wordplay" just as easily as you could sitting in your chair. ↗

— John Langdon

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