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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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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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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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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The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.
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It was all men, and there I was prancing around in gowns that barely got past the censors.
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Tahir Pasha assigned me a room when I was staying in his residence, and every night before sleeping, I would spend around three hours going over the books I had memorized. It would take me three months to go through the lot. Thanks be to God, all those works became steps ascending to the truths of the Qur'an.
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If I wasn't so phenomenal. I would go back to you.
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For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.
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One time Robert Plant was set to check into the same room after I checked out, so I removed every light bulb and ordered up a bunch of stinky cheese and put it under the mattress.
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Those five Rogers Cup matches were physically tough, and there were late nights, up until 2 or 3 A.M. - how could I fall to sleep after beating some of my heroes?
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Muslim women can save the world from ISIS.
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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.
