Laura Dekker Quotes
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One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.
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I have never believed in the impossible.
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I never threatened him and no Syrian intelligence officer has ever pointed a gun to his head.
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I think after a time there won't be anything left to be interesting for mankind. Computers are about to do everything for us. Cellphones are smarter than we are. We'll embrace spirituality because we'll be bored of everything else.
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I had an interest in Scandinavian countries because I'd never seen snow.
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I'll never be like a Barbie girl, that's for sure.
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I wasn't bad at school, but I was never a bookworm.
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I feel that Christian music is a subculture directed towards the Christians. It's not really being exposed to non-Christians and it's not really created for non-Christians, so non-Christians almost never hear any of this music.
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My family never owned a home. We leased.
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At times, our circumstances call for us to make critical choices to keep our covenants or to compromise them. Covenants should never be compromised, even when at the moment some circumstances might seem to justify it.
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The criteria, the only rule you should follow - the only rule - is to never touch a product or service unless, every time it is sold, part of the profit has to come back to you.
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The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
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In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.
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I never read about photography.
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I know from an editor's point of view or a publisher's point of view it's easier to slot me into a particular niche. But I know that I'd be bored unless I wrote a book that in some senses was a challenge.
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Never trust a hippie. That's definitely my motto.
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My husband and I don't have sons, so we never had to ask ourselves how we'd have felt about them playing football.
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I try to beat back the producers and engineers so they - there's not an excess of stuff used to squeeze my voice to make it artificial. There's a person in there, and people will listen; if they hear another person speak to them, they'll listen because it's lonely out here.
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The studios gotta start making more stuff where black folks get quality stuff. But I can't trip about that because I've been making movies for 35 years, and I've played everything from an old lady to a donkey, so I can't be on here talking about, 'They don't give us enough roles' and diversity.
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Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
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The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.
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For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.
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I do not often get lonely, and I never get bored.
