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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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When I'm on vacation here in the States, I can do all kinds of stuff; I can train and keep busy.
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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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Long practise in driving a racing car at a hundred miles an hour or so gives first-class training in control and judging distances at high speed and helps tremendously in getting motor sense, which is rather the feel of your engine than the sound of it, a thing you get through your bones and nerves rather than simply your ears.
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I'd got a part in the original cast of 'Cats' when I was 16, and that kept me going for a while. After that, I felt lost, both personally and professionally - I was trying to find a way not to be seen only as this bubbly, bright, vivacious person. It felt like I'd lost the freedom to make mistakes.
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Beauty seen is never lost.
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A spoon cannot taste of the food it carries. Likewise, a foolish man cannot understand the wise man´s wisdom even if he associates with a sage.
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As an artist, you are aware there is this strange money market out there, but you have no sense of how it works.
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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.
