John John Florence Quotes

I want to win a world title for sure. When I'm a little bit older, I'll have a lot of time to free-surf in my life. So I would love to win a world title.

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• The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Little
  • Matters
  • Field

• My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Film
  • Favorite
  • Finale

• A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Important
  • Bad
  • Review

• To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Funny

• There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Art
  • Like
  • Modern

• 'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • Man
  • Idea
  • Mad

• We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Life
  • Human
  • Abundance

• A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Book
  • Man
  • Library

• A mom can't afford to be sick.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Mom
  • Sick
  • Afford

• First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.

  

  Jack L. Chalker
  • People
  • Real
  • Money

• I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with people who see computers getting faster and smarter, and technology getting more and more beneficial, without seeing the other side.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • People
  • Technology
  • Computers

• If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • First
  • Short
  • Hear

• Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Parents
  • Childhood
  • Summer

• I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • School
  • Pretty
  • Hair

• Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.

  

  Harrison Salisbury
  • Knowledge
  • Me
  • Training

• I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.

  

  M. F. Husain
  • Will
  • Breath
  • Last

• 'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Will
  • Sure
  • Glued

• Homecourt is everything in the NBA.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Everything
  • NBA

• Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.

  

  Douglas MacArthur
  • Fear
  • Patriotic

• Not only will you be held accountable for the things you do, but you will be held responsible for the very thoughts you think.

  

  Karl G. Maeser
  • Think
  • You
  • Thoughts

• The people I coach are very successful people, so it's very hard for winners to not constantly win. Even if it's trivial and not worth it, we still want to win - because we love winning. It's a very deep habit.

  

  Marshall Goldsmith
  • People
  • Winning
  • Deep

• If most people were to take a moment to picture in their minds the average, not-for-profit, save-the-world girl, they... well, they probably wouldn't, because who wants to think about hemp, hairy legs, and Birkenstocks? But I'd rather eat a pair of Birkenstocks than put them on my feet, and I love, love, love my Christian Louboutins.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • People
  • World
  • Girl

• Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Life
  • Wanted
  • Plant

• I want to win a world title for sure. When I'm a little bit older, I'll have a lot of time to free-surf in my life. So I would love to win a world title.

  

  John John Florence
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