Laura Dekker Quotes
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May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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I am happy with all the films I've done. I have not become the victim of an image. I have managed to do different roles, and I am proud of that.
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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
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The Chinese have certain advantages. The fact that it's a single party government. But I do believe in the long run the fact that India is a functioning democracy committed to the rule of law. Our system is slow to move but I'm confident that once decisions are taken they are going to be far more durable.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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It was a matter of survival for the local people, but it was the most violent scene I have ever witnessed. The people in my group, feeling helpless, were all spellbound and aghast at the same time. I became a vegetarian shortly after that.
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.
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Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.
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I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.
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For writers and artists, it's always a balancing act between wanting to be the center of attention and wanting to be invisible and watch what's going on.
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I know my life story sounds too extraordinary to be true.
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I have always believed that the material world is governed by nonmaterial sources, so that in that sense 'English Music' is an exercise in the spiritual as well as the material. I have always been attracted to the Gothic and spiritual imagination, and I've always been interested in visionaries.
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Even a single hair casts its shadow.
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I only went along to youth theatre with a friend when I was young to try to make myself a bit more sociable. But the whole thing was quite sore; it really hurt me trying to get into drama school. It was a world I knew nothing about - it was very middle class; all that usual stuff. But I was young, determined, and I just went for it.
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Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished.
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Since I was 10 years old, I knew I wanted to sail around the world.
