Bethany Hamilton Quotes
I believe in Jesus Christ, and I believe He gave me the passion and determination to continue surfing. You fall off the horse, and you get back on. I had to go for it.
Quotes to Explore
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
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Reparations, I believe, are talked about for political reasons, trying to cater for the purpose of getting votes. If Congress was serious about reparations - in '93 and '94 the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the White House, and not one single Republican vote was needed for reparations.
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I believe that in the historic and religious nature, marriage is between a man and a woman.
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Looking at acting, in the movies or the theater, and the way I like to look at it, it's just an extension of childhood play... Kids play and imagine in a very intense fashion and they don't need any director telling them, 'You really have to believe in it.' They believe in it completely.
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We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.
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I believe the universe has great plans for us. When you are young, you don't learn that.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.
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Privately, I believe in none of them. Neither do you. Publicly, I believe in them all.
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Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.
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I truly believe that everything Sci-fi taught me as a child about an efficient and wondrous world will be happening in my lifetime.
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Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves.
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Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
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I don't really believe in stories, only in the people who tell them.
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I do not believe wealthy candidates should spend vast resources in their own campaigns.
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I've always loved the language of flowers. I discovered Kate Greenaway's 'Language of Flowers' in a used bookstore when I was 16 and couldn't believe it was such a well-kept secret. How could something so beautiful and romantic be virtually unknown?
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I will continue to believe that Israel's security is paramount.
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I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.
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You don't believe it because you don't understand," he said hoarsely. "Prosper was different. He wasn't like other people. He might have hated me, but he loved me too. In his own way. He couldn't help it; not after raising me for all those years." When no one responded – when he saw nothing but expressions of disbelief on the faces around him – Cadel wailed, "He did! He did! I know he did! He only wanted to wreck my life because he wasn't a part of it!" And as sympathetic hands reached out towards him from every corner of the car, Cadel began to cry like someone whose heart was breaking.
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I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.
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A lot of songs I sang to crowds to get their reaction. That's how I knew they'd hit.
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People were talking while I was playing, so I got up and left the stage. I've gotten to the point where I'm not really very patient with patrons rapping during the show. And the people were all nice and quiet when I cam back.
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I believe in Jesus Christ, and I believe He gave me the passion and determination to continue surfing. You fall off the horse, and you get back on. I had to go for it.
