Laura Dekker Quotes

When I'm not surfing or sailing, I am to be found at the harbour working on my boat.

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• President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Together
  • Principles

• The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Say
  • Three

• If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • You
  • Doing
  • Living

• I want to resume the life of a shy person.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Life
  • Want
  • Resume

• I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Work
  • Being
  • Reputation

• I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • High
  • Never
  • Kid

• Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Nature
  • Death
  • Humility

• He said, 'From then on, I realized that I was not just abandoned. I was chosen. I was special.' And I think that's the key to understanding Steve Jobs.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Think
  • Understanding
  • Key

• The most violent and troubling stories become part of our national consciousness about foster care.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Care
  • Consciousness
  • Become

• Well, it's still another two-day competition, so it's really important to show that you're ready. Every meet is really important right now. You've got to keep showing you can hit.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Important
  • You
  • Competition

• We have two trainers at the polo ground and do a mix of aerobics, gymnastics and stretches before we start riding. As polo players, it's very important for us to keep in shape. We do a bit of yoga and Pilates sometimes, too.

  

  Facundo Pieres
  • Important
  • Sometimes
  • Start

• I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Think
  • Vanity

• I finished 'The Hunger Games' trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Hunger
  • Finished
  • Zombies

• I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Beauty
  • Makeup
  • High Heels

• It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm exists nowhere if not here: in the consequences of human actions as they unfold in time, and the multiple interpretive possibility of those actions.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Time
  • Help

• George Foreman is easier and has the bigger name and have you noticed that Foreman never calls me out or ever mentions my name? He is afraid of me like most fighters are and most people want to forget about Larry Holmes, like he never ever existed.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • People
  • Forget
  • Name

• The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society; any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.

  

  Ted Olson
  • Society
  • Marriage
  • Short

• Oddly enough, Bruce Lee wrote some great philosophy.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Great
  • Enough
  • Philosophy

• The needs of the nation are not necessarily convergent with the needs of the deadline satirist.

  

  Christopher Buckley

• Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • Culture
  • Travel

• My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, really. I wouldn't say it's a career in fashion. The range is all day-to-day stuff that I'd put on and use myself.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Mother
  • Career
  • Fashion

• A guy comes home from college to find his mother sleeping with his uncle, and there's a ghost running around. Write it good, it's Hamlet; write it bad, it's Gilligan's Island.

  

  Lorne Michaels
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Home

• When I'm not surfing or sailing, I am to be found at the harbour working on my boat.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • Boat
  • Surfing
  • Sailing