John John Florence Quotes

I just want to be able surf everything - from big waves to small waves.

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• I like quiet. No television cameras. I'm not the Hollywood type.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • Television
  • Hollywood
  • Quiet

• I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Want
  • Shows
  • Mysterious

• When I write sad songs, I feel like I'm sewing up a scar in me, and the outcome always feels so much better than when I write happy ones.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Better

• The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Work
  • Independent
  • Lucky

• By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Best
  • Books
  • Worst

• In 1995, the Clinton Administration reached an agreement with Cuban government that any refugee caught at sea would be sent back to Cuba while any refugee who reaches the United States shores would be allowed to begin the process to citizenship after one year.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Government
  • Sea
  • Process

• The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Answers
  • Questions
  • Damage

• I was tested against the best.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Best
  • Against
  • Tested

• My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Team
  • Language
  • Brother

• I'm such a perfectionist.

  

  Candice Glover
  • Perfectionist

• The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Will
  • Nation
  • Forgotten

• I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • World
  • Pleasure
  • Everyone

• Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • People
  • Good
  • Love

• My dad said, 'Cam, you can make this situation a dream or you can make this situation a nightmare.' That struck a fire under me. That was my drive.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Dream
  • Me
  • Dad

• Oddly, a search for 'jeggings' in my email inbox shows that my first exposure to the phenomenon came from - wait for it - Mike Allen of 'Politico,' who helpfully explained the concept on December 20, 2009.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Search
  • Wait
  • December

• Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Writing
  • Never
  • Door

• Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Security
  • Rich
  • More

• People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I mean, they're playing with the same amount of ferocity. It's not to say all jazz is like that.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • Music
  • Art

• Knowing yourself and expressing it is hip. I think knowing yourself is the real journey, for me anyway.

  

  David Schwimmer
  • Real
  • Journey

• I was 17, and it was my first summer in London as a professional singer. One hot, humid evening, I heard that the Jimi Hendrix Experience was playing in a blues club above a pub in Finsbury Park. I was flat broke and couldn't afford a ticket, so I went along just to stand outside and listen.

  

  Paul Rodgers Bad Company
  • Experience
  • Professional
  • Summer

• Many luckless people imagine that romance is dead: some, overcivilised, fondly suppose that there never was romance: a poet tells us that romance is unrecognised though really present: but scientists can meet him daily, walking at large and undisguised in the world.

  

  Archibald Hill
  • People
  • World
  • Present

• I think Barack Obama is one of the most exciting politicians to come along in a long time.

  

  Mark McKinnon
  • Time
  • Long

• To lie is so vile, that even if it were in speaking well of godly things it would take off something from God's grace; and Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • God
  • Truth
  • Small

• I just want to be able surf everything - from big waves to small waves.

  

  John John Florence
  • Small
  • Waves