Laura Dekker Quotes
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President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
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I want to resume the life of a shy person.
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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
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I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.
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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?
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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.
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The most violent and troubling stories become part of our national consciousness about foster care.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I finished 'The Hunger Games' trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies.
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I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'
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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.
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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.
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The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society; any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.
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Oddly enough, Bruce Lee wrote some great philosophy.
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Patents have a place in medical science - for new inventions that advance the state of knowledge.
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If it is right for men to fight for their freedom, and God knows what the human race would be like today if men had not, since time began, fought for their freedom, then it is right for women to fight for their freedom and the freedom of the children they bear.
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It looks easy, like surfing, but surfing is hard too.
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In the whole story of Jesus Christ, the most important event is the resurrection.
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Men and women consume one another rapidly in what is called "the act of love," or else settle down to a mild habit of conjugality. We seldom find a mean between these two extremes.
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When I'm not surfing or sailing, I am to be found at the harbour working on my boat.
