Laura Dekker Quotes
Over a period of 11 months, I was constantly afraid that Youth Care would lock me up. It was all a frightening and traumatic experience. So often, these terrible memories come to me. I can't ignore them.
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I think where we're still a little bit behind some other countries is just our pure soccer knowledge and our savvy on the field. That takes time and generations that have watched soccer growing up, played the game growing up.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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My eye is ever on those who love me.
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Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
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We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
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It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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I tried the broadcasting thing, the coaching thing, but I'll never replace the competitive feeling of being out on the field when we were players.
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I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.
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Me as president would not be like anybody else as president. Everyone does the job differently.
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I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.
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There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.
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Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.
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They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
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When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'
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There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.
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The kind of society which we still have is maybe, in some cases, getting worse. Competition is becoming a virtue. Intense competition drives people to go more and more into self-interest. Even to see other folks as competition.
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Yes, I was actually an acting teacher for a while.
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I would hope that the president would come forward on a timely basis and do two things: Lay this out to the Congress and the American people, and also come forward with a plan for how we're going to pay for it.
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Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people.
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Over a period of 11 months, I was constantly afraid that Youth Care would lock me up. It was all a frightening and traumatic experience. So often, these terrible memories come to me. I can't ignore them.
