Bethany Hamilton Quotes
Surfing for me is more than my lifestyle; it's my passion, my love, and it's a part of me.
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The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
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The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.
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Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.
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I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have imagined the career that I've had with the Foo Fighters - playing stadiums and having songs on the radio. It's amazing, and my goal is really just to carry on playing.
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The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
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All I have to do to continue to make things work is make great records, and that's more important than having a crazy master plan.
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I write novels and other things.
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.
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Richard III is not likeable. Macbeth is not likeable. Hamlet is not likeable. And yet you can't take your eyes off them. I'm far more interested in that than I am in any sort of likeability.
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The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.
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Doing new stuff live is tough just simply because I pay my money, I stand in my seats, and I see the guys I love. And if I paid that ticket, there's a good chance that I'm there to hear the stuff that made me fall in love with 'em - we call it the 'old stuff.'
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I play to see what I can accomplish. I don't play for fun. I play to see how good I can be.
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When we started there was this element of these experiments we were doing where we weren't really sure how the music would play out because the music was all on different players.
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I am not a politician by nature, but I will say I think there need to be more women in FIFA, and I would be open to having those conversations when the time is right.
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I have no idea why a guy would bring a jar of peanut butter to a concert.
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I could have sexual chemistry with vinegar.
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If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard.
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We were talking of DRAGONS, Tolkien and I In a Berkshire bar. The big workman Who had sat silent and sucked his pipe All the evening, from his empty mug With gleaming eye glanced towards us: "I seen 'em myself!" he said fiercely.
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I am unable, when I turn to myself, to recognize any of my faculties or my capacities. The inner sensation which I have of myself informs me that I am, that I think, that I will, that I have sensory awareness, that I suffer, and so on; but it provides me with no knowledge whatever of what I am - of the nature of my thought, my sensations, my passions, or my pain - or the mutual relations that obtain between all these things ... I have no idea whatever of my soul.
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The very first song I wrote was about a boy that I was obsessed with.
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Surfing for me is more than my lifestyle; it's my passion, my love, and it's a part of me.
