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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There is a tendency to underestimate the power of what we can do without words. Sometimes you can make a scene even more powerful and precise without dialogue.
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The airport paparazzi kind of wigs me out a little bit.
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Nothing can hide from me the conviction that an immortal soul needs for its sustenance something more than visiting, and gardening, and novel-reading, and crochet-needle, and the occasional manufacture of sponge cake.
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My husband and I oddly have worked together a couple of times. We did a 'Veronica Mars' episode together. We didn't work together, but we were both in 'Ghost World.' We had a theater company in L.A., for a bunch of years. So, we've worked together a fair amount, and it's always just great fun.
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Yoga is your mind control capacity.
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When I'm not surfing or sailing, I am to be found at the harbour working on my boat.
