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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman.
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If I did anything 'next', I would do writing.
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The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.
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I like to work with artists from around the world. There are so many new inspiring filmmakers. I had the privilege recently to work with Ethiopian filmmaker Zeresenay Mehari and his wife on the film Difret. They are that unique balance of very thoughtful conscious filmmakers who are also brilliant, original artists.
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I once knew an otherwise excellent teacher who compelled his students to perform all their demonstrations with incorrect figures, on the theory that it was the logical connection of the concepts, not the figure, that was essential.
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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.
