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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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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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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There's no one on this earth taken less seriously in a leadership context than a young woman - everything is against you.
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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
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We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say.
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Creativity is a voracious animal. It needs to be fed regularly. If you leave it untended for too long, you run the risk of starving your passion and diminishing your spirit.
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The Haisla named this point Obela. Not so long ago, the bay was lined with longhouses and canoes, totem poles and fishing gear. The reserve was once a winter village, a place to celebrate the sacred season, when memories passed in dance and song and stories from one generation to the next with great feasts called potlatches.
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The dark does not weep for itself because there is no light. Rather, it accepts that it is the dark. It is said that even the gods must die.' He winks. 'But not without one hell of a fight.'
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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.
