Laura Dekker Quotes
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William Lloyd Garrison was up there with Frederick Douglass being thrown off trains and going through what happened in the 1960s in 1840 in Boston.
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I just enjoy being onstage and relating to the audience.
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When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.
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I hate being called an 'icon.' I just don't like it. That's all there is to it.
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The Florida peninsula is, in fact, an emerging plateau, honeycombed with voids and vents, caves and underground waterways. Travelers on Interstate Highway I-75 have no idea that, beneath them, are cave labyrinths still being mapped by speleologists - 'cavers,' they prefer to be called.
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I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
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Being well-dressed is a wonderful thing, but I don't think it should be life threatening.
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Conscientious objection is an intrinsic part of being a soldier.
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For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.
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To the best of my knowledge, my youngest reader is 10 and the oldest is 95.
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What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.
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This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine.
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There are lots of actors who are awful people, but nobody talks about them being awful because they've made billions.
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Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.
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In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
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I'm nearly 50. I'm past being photographed falling out of bars.
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The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
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Music is really nothing if you think about it - it only becomes something when somebody listens to it. And then it becomes uncontrollable.
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The payouts for starting a business are just terrible when you account for risk. A tiny minority of entrepreneurs ever get rich. And the majority of entrepreneurs would probably make far more money, and have more stable personal relationships, if they just worked for someone else.
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I'm still not used to the idea of being the youngest circumnavigator.
