Laura Dekker Quotes
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.
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I read about violent things. I think what I get out of that is entertainment by learning about different things, and reading the genre and getting an understanding of motivations. But at the end of the day, it's still a book, and I can walk away.
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It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.
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I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.
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Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. It's like... malaria or something. Maybe it won't be cured, but you've got to take the medication you're prescribed, and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.
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I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
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If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, 'I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.' Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don't have the nerve.
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Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
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Truth is of no practical value to mankind save as it affects terrestrial phenomena, hence the discoveries of science should be concealed or glossed over wherever they conflict with orthodoxy.
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It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary.
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Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?
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When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example.
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Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.
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If I am in London I like a quick get away to The Olde Bell in Hurley... It's nearby and no stress - great food and beautiful walks.
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Before blogs, it was all about physical presence. We used to send out videos and audiotapes to communicate. Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.
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When we fall in love, we feel that this person is ours and we are theirs by our mutual volition, and we know they could leave - we know that because they are free, and their freedom is part of the thrill.
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The Britney Spears fans aren't going to dig us.
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None of the chase scenes that I did had any opticals. We had to do all of that physically. The first thing you have to do is see it in your mind's eye. You have to envision it. Imagine someone knitting a sweater or a scarf. They either have a pattern in front of them, or they see a pattern in their mind's eye. Then it's one stitch at a time. That's what shooting a chase is like.
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Every individual suffers from the fear of failure, but you can change your destiny only when you overcome it.
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At sea, I feel comfortable and I come to rest.
