Laird Hamilton Quotes
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I grew up on Avenue C, and Tompkins Square Park was my park. That was where I played ball every day. I lived in that park.
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I started out with comedy in college, but had my major in Recreation Administration - which meant I wasn't going to get a real job - so I started doing a little standup.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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I'm getting fat... because my size, I put on 20 or 30 pounds, it doesn't show very much... I'm thinking about going back to work out in a very short time.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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So long as you do it truthfully, music is not to be judged.
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What we wanted to do was tell a story that felt relatable to anyone who's been a teenager. We haven't all been a second-generation Pakistani-American girl with superpowers, but we've all been 16 and awkward.
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A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others.
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Some of the most fascinating scenes in 'Unforgiven,' for me, is that scene with Gene Hackman where he's talking about the Duke of Death that Richard Harris played, and he's basically demolishing this myth of this man very unwesternly – not what you expect in a western.
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The premise of anything you do - whether it's writing a song or any business - is ultimately that it hinges heavily on your belief in the thing that you're doing and promoting and selling. It's a reflection of who you are in a very deep way.
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I've got a winner mentality, the mentality of a champion.
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Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can have a word with him?
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I saw Islam as the correct way to live, and I chose to try to live that way.
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You want to throw yourself in as many uncomfortable places as possible, if you want to build muscles in uncomfortable parts of your body and grow as an artist.
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Visit not miracle-mongers and those who exhibit occult powers. These men are stragglers from the path of Truth. Their minds have become entangled in psychic powers, which are like veritable meshes in the way of the pilgrim to Brahman. Beware of these powers, and desire them not.
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Emerson writes in his Journal that all men try their hands at poetry, but few know which their poems are. The poets are not those who write poems, but those who know which of the things they write are poems.
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Most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong.
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The less somebody knows and understand himself the less great he is, however great may be his talent. For this reason our scientists are not great.
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If our values are worth anything, we should stand up for them and live by them, both within Britain and across the world.
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I wonder if anyone thinks of me when they can’t fall asleep at night.
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I'm not going to change the way I play.
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No one is truly poor but except the one who lacks the truth.
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We're all equal before a wave.
