Laura Dekker Quotes
In England, I met a couple who run a children's home. They were very kind and showed me many nice spots in England.
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My dogs are spoilt for sure. They are pampered pooches. But I love them so much! I guess all dogs need to be washed, but maybe blueberry facials aren't essential. It's quite fun, though. You want to give your children everything; I don't have children, so I want my dogs to have a good life.
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Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.
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My husband and I, when we had our five children and they were grown, we thought we were entitled to grandchildren. And so we were just expecting this to happen; of course, nothing was happening. And then we kept begging, bribing, cajoling, anything - threatening to adopt our own grandchildren - and finally, we got some grandchildren.
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What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me.
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You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family... your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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All the actors I respect, especially old-Hollywood actors, the reason I think so many of them have had long careers is that there is a sort of mystery about them. You don't know what they do on Friday nights when they go home from work. You have no clue. You have this sort of fantasy about them.
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I know it starts at home, but all families are not staying together.
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Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.
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Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.
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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
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Many fans were surprised when they learned that the little girl in drama 'Stairway To Heaven' was me.
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My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
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We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.
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Epic were adamant that I should carry on being me. They liked the way I look, my clothes, hats... nothing's changed really.
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One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.
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I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice.
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There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.
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In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.
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I probably have an earlier curfew than anyone. My mom wants to keep me really safe and my dad's not overly protective, but he's a dad no matter what.
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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I'm a crusader. I really believe in the First Amendment, and I use it fully, and I pay a price for that.
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In England, I met a couple who run a children's home. They were very kind and showed me many nice spots in England.
