Laird Hamilton Quotes
All training does is get us back what we lost when we stopped having to hunt down our food. Our bodies are built for it already.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
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Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.
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Surely no one can be sure he has visited Cienega; people say to themselves, do they not: 'Was it a vision; or have I, some time or other, seen dusk in a valley like this?'
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You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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Wisdom is a sacred communion.
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I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings.
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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
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I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
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It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
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In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
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I'm still very much Kate.
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The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
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I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.
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I was about to give up acting when I got the call about being short-listed for 'Dangal.'
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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In one week, I went from being a girl who owed a guy thousands of dollars - my manager Anthony was paying for my outfits, paying for my food; I was sleeping in his parents' basement - to taking meetings with every major label in America. The next morning, I had a record deal and wrote him a cheque to pay back all that money.
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I don't think actors get good training today. I put my training to use in everything I do.
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We are commanded to seek out those who are lost. We are to be our brother's keeper.
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The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.
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All training does is get us back what we lost when we stopped having to hunt down our food. Our bodies are built for it already.
