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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We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid.
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Photography is a source of raw materials as I believe the camera is never perfect and will never be able to express in full what I see and feel.
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I am one year older than Nigeria at 51. In a human life, 51 might be old. But it is very young for a nation. By that, I mean a Nigeria conscious of itself as a nation.
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Remember how Democrats were complaining that Republicans were trying to overturn Obamacare, it was somehow unpatriotic, because it was an attack on the law of the land. This law of the land doesn’t even exist. It exists in Obama’s head. It’s whatever he thinks. He wakes up in the morning and decides what the law is gonna be.
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No one in life can ever match fiction
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At sea, I feel comfortable and I come to rest.
