John John Florence Quotes
The place where I grew up is the center of surfing. Everyone who grows up on the North Shore surfs, and from October to March, you have the best waves in the world within a 5- to 7-mile stretch. I grew up in the center of these incredible sunsets and all these incredible waves. And then we have the Triple Crown of Surfing.
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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If you want to lead, you better love people. Even if you don't like them, you have to love them enough to tell them the truth.
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I remember I was a little girl when Elizabeth Taylor stole Eddie Fisher from America's Sweetheart, Debbie Reynolds, and the reaction back then was enormous! And Angelina Jolie was in trouble, too, for taking a husband away from another America's Sweetheart. Don't take husbands from America's Sweethearts.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard.
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My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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I am the conductor for life of the Staatskapelle in Berlin, which fills me with tremendous joy because I feel absolutely at one with them. When we play, I have a feeling that together we manage to create one collective lung for the whole orchestra so that everybody in the stage breathes the music in the same way.
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Being made in the image of God, man was the crown of creation.
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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I don't like the mentality that comes with rich Russian men. Because they have money, they think they can buy a woman - and they do.
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Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.
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I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.
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I'm inspired by looking at art, by looking at precedent. Looking is what you have to do if you want to make things, so you develop a critical eye.
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The measure of a society can be how well its people treat its animals.
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Of course, I peed my pants, everyone my age pees their pants. It's the coolest.
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I am in an industry that makes women feel bad about themselves, absolutely.
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It is not about reading the Word. It is about obeying the Word.
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The place where I grew up is the center of surfing. Everyone who grows up on the North Shore surfs, and from October to March, you have the best waves in the world within a 5- to 7-mile stretch. I grew up in the center of these incredible sunsets and all these incredible waves. And then we have the Triple Crown of Surfing.
