Laird Hamilton Quotes

There needs to be a reason to go, so you go deeper into whatever place you're visiting to find those unforgettable experiences.

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• The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Reason
  • Stuff
  • Plan

• I think we should be encouraged to learn from Columbine and let it be a battle cry for all of us.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Think
  • Learn
  • Battle

• Muslims remain the most convenient target for prejudice in a city like Delhi, which is far more ghettoized than Bombay or Bangalore, for example.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • City
  • Example
  • Prejudice

• 'Hell is for Children' is amazing to do every night and 'Promises in the Dark' and 'Love Is a Battlefied,' of course, but my absolute favorite would be 'Heartbreaker.' It's the one that started everything, so it has a very special place in my heart. And it still rocks every night! It's so fun to do.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Children
  • Heart
  • Fun

• There's not a blueprint for me to follow.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Me
  • Follow
  • Blueprint

• What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Feeling
  • Never
  • Returning

• If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • You
  • Thankful
  • Thanksgiving

• In some countries, women aren't allowed to wear a swimsuit.

  

  Valeria Mazza
  • Women
  • Wear
  • Some

• Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Imagination
  • Learn
  • See

• As an actor you're used to being the focus of attention.

  

  Yasmine Bleeth
  • Attention
  • Focus
  • Actor

• By thinking through the grilling process while still in the kitchen, you can easily gather all of the items that you might need and conveniently carry them to the outdoors area.

  

  Barton Seaver
  • Thinking
  • Process
  • Kitchen

• I just want to make it clear that I have been working since I was ten years old.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Want
  • Years
  • Old

• My parents were big music fans, and my dad plays music, so I grew up with Madonna, Frank Zappa, the Beatles, Alice In Chains... it was all over the place. I had a Third Eye Blind record, but I also had Korn, Courtney Love, and Shania Twain.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Music
  • Parents
  • Place

• What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line.

  

  Earle Brown
  • People
  • Good
  • Lies

• We should be inspired by people... who show that human beings can be kind, brave, generous, beautiful, strong-even in the most difficult circumstances.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Strong

• Every moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over world-building.

  

  M. John Harrison
  • World
  • Writing
  • Science

• I like to study failure, actually. My partner says, 'I want to know where I'll die so I'll never go there.' We want to see what has caused businesses to go bad. The biggest thing that kills them is complacency. ... The danger would always be that you rest on your laurels.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Bad
  • Die
  • Rest

• It is in Agra, a city in India, which was part of the Mughal Empire in the seventeenth century. A Monument To Love, India's Taj Mahal is a beautiful example of a great building feat. With the exception of its gardens, it is exactly as it was designed in 1631.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • City

• And regardless of the fact that in this country, certainly in the arts, we treat comedy as a second-class citizen, I've never thought of it that way. I've always thought it to be important. The last time I looked, the Greeks were holding up two masks. I've always thought of it not only as having equal value, but as the craft of it, being funny.

  

  Jeff Daniels
  • Up
  • Time
  • Important

• If there is one great power, and the great power has taken upon itself the right to preempt and is choosing for itself when and in what circumstances it's going to do that, obviously it leads people in the rest of the world to wonder how far this doctrine extends.

  

  John Lewis Gaddis
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• When they court announcers say, 'This is the world No. 2,' it just doesn't sound right to me because either I'm No. 1 or I'm a grand slam champion. I'm not world No. 2. I just don't like the ring of it when I'm introduced on court because I've been up there for so, so long.

  

  Roger Federer
  • World
  • Sound
  • Champion

• We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it.

  

  Eldridge Cleaver
  • Earth

• There needs to be a reason to go, so you go deeper into whatever place you're visiting to find those unforgettable experiences.

  

  Laird Hamilton